Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai (Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ Malālah Yūsafzay , born July 12, 1997) is a school student and education activist from the town of Mingora in the Swat District of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. She is known for her education and women’s rights activism in the Swat Valley, where the Taliban has at times banned girls from attending school. In early 2009, at the age of 11/12, Yousafzai wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC detailing her life under Taliban rule, their attempts to take control of the valley, and her views on promoting education for girls. The following summer, a New York Times documentary was filmed about her life as the Pakistani military intervened in the region, culminating in the Second Battle of Swat. Yousafzai began to rise in prominence, giving interviews in print and on television and taking a position as chairperson of the District Child Assembly Swat. She has since been nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize by Desmond Tutu and has won Pakistan’s first National Youth Peace Prize.
On 9 October 2012, Yousafzai was shot in the head and neck in an assassination attempt by Taliban gunmen while returning home on a school bus. In the days immediately following the attack, she remained unconscious and in critical condition, but later her condition improved enough for her to be sent to a hospital in the United Kingdom for intensive rehabilitation. On 12 October a group of 50 Islamic clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwā against those who tried to kill her, and the Taliban reiterated its intent to kill Yousafzai and her father, Ziauddin.
Former British Prime Minister and current UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown launched a United Nations petition in Yousafzai’s name, using the slogan “I am Malala” and demanding that all children worldwide be in school by the end of 2015. Brown said he would hand the petition to Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari in November.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A suicide bombing at a funeral in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday killed at least 18 people, including a provincial lawmaker, and wounded 50 others, police said. The attack took place in Shergarh town in Mardan district, 145 kilometres (90 miles) northwest of Islamabad, during prayers for the owner of a local fuel [...]
Washington : Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education, has denounced an attack on a bus carrying female students in Quetta as ‘cowardly’. At least 25 people were killed on Saturday when militants blew up the bus in Quetta and then stormed a hospital where survivors had been [...]
Peshawar, The tenure of the newly-formed Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government will soon witness the withdrawal of security forces from Swat. Deputy Parliamentary Leader Shaukat Ali Yousafzai announced that the decision to withdraw the Pakistan Army from Swat has been taken, reports The Express Tribune. The PTI stalwart, who is reportedly all set to assume the responsibility [...]
ISLAMABAD : The first Pakistani woman to climb Mount Everest says she wants her achievement to stand as an inspiration to all the women of her troubled country that they can achieve their dreams. Samina Baig last month became the first woman from the South Asian country to reach the 8,848 metre (29,029 foot) summit [...]
Washington : The family of a 16-year-old Bangladeshi girl who is playing the role of Pakistani teen activist Malala Yousafzai in a new film have insisted that no photos of the girl be released until midway through filming, in fear of revenge attacks by the Taliban. Indian director Amjad Khan chose amateur actress Fatima Sheikh [...]
KARACHI : Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates are to play a charity football match to raise money for the girls’ education fund set up by teenage campaigner Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban. The 15-year-old, from Pakistan’s northwestern Swat Valley, came to international attention in October last year after she was shot [...]
LONDON : Malala Yousafzai, the teenage girl shot by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education, will make her first public speech on her 16th birthday in New York, the office of Britain’s former prime minister Gordon Brown announced on Friday. She will speak at the United Nations on July 12, said Brown, speaking in his [...]
NEW YORK – Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani school girl and advocate for girls’ education who survived a would-be assassin’s bullet, is among the 100 most influential people in the world, Time magazine said Thursday. Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education, is one of seven honorees to also appear on [...]
LONDON- A fund set up by Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education, is to send 40 girls to school in her home region with the support of US actress Angelina Jolie. Malala, 15, announced the fund’s first project in a video message late Thursday to the [...]
London, Pakistani schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai, who was brought to England after being shot in the head by the Taliban, has revealed the first recipients of her new education charity, with the support of Hollywood star Angelina Jolie. Malala, who now attends Edgbaston High School for girls in Birmingham, is donating almost 30,000 pounds to an [...]
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s political parties organised huge rallies on Sunday but campaigning for historic general elections in May was marred by a bomb attack which killed two people in the country’s northwest. The Pakistani Taliban have issued threats against the three main secular parties that made up the outgoing government and who backed army operations [...]
LONDON : Malala Yousafzai, the teenage girl shot by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education, is to tell her life story in a book due out later this year, the publishers said Thursday, in a deal reportedly worth around three million dollars. The book will be entitled “I Am Malala”. “I hope the book will [...]
Islamabad, Former Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has strongly rejected a media report claiming that Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has left the country after a spat with his father, President Asif Ali Zardari. Malik said that the media report was “pre-election propaganda”, and added that he was confident that the rumours would prove to be baseless, [...]
London, Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who survived a Taliban attack in Pakistan last year, plans to tell her story and the “story of 61 million children who can”t get education”, in a memoir. “I am Malala” will be published in Britain, the US and India this autumn after the 15-year-old, struck a deal with two [...]
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