The Burka Avenger (Facebook)

Move over Wonder Woman and Supergirl, a new female superhero is on the rise and this one shows a lot less skin than her predecessors.

Pakistani heroine Burka Avenger is a mild-mannered teacher with secret martial arts skills.

She uses a flowing black burka to hide her identity as she fights local thugs seeking to shut down the girls’ school where she works.

It is a battle Pakistanis are all too familiar with in the real world.

The Taliban has blown up hundreds of schools and attacked activists in northwest Pakistan because it opposes girls’ education.

Read more at Sky News.