Malala Yousafzai was born on 12 July 1997. Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani school acolyte and education futuristic from the town of Mingora in the Swat District of Pakistan’s north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa state. She is known for her education and women’s rights involvement in the Swat Valley, where the Taliban had at times disqualified girls from appearing school.
In initial of 2009, at the age of 11–12, Malala Yousafzai wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC specifying her life under Taliban rule, their efforts to take regulator of the valley, and her opinions on endorsing education for girls. The succeeding summer, a New York Times documentary was recorded about her life as the Pakistani military arbitrated in the province, terminating in the Second Battle of Swat. Malala Yousafzai rose in eminence, providing interviews in print and on television, and she was selected for the International Children’s Peace Prize by South African activist Desmond Tutu.
On 9 October 2012, Malala Yousafzai was gunshot in the head and neck in a manslaughter effort by Taliban gunmen while returning home on a school bus. In the days instantaneously subsequent the occurrence, she continued insentient and in life-threatening situation, but later her circumstance developed adequate for her to be sent to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, United Kingdom for demanding rehabilitation.
On 12 October, a group of 50 Islamic priests in Pakistan allotted a fatwā in contradiction of those who strained to kill her, but the Taliban say again its set on to kill Malala Yousafzai and her father.
The shooting effort flickered a national and global expression of sustenance for Yousafzai. Deutsche Welle wrote in January 2013 that Malala Yousafzai may have become “the most famous teenager in the world.” United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown propelled a UN 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.
In the 29 April 2013 concern of Time magazine, Malala Yousafzai was highlighted on the magazine’s front cover and as one of “The 100 Most Influential People In The World”. She was the winner of Pakistan’s first National Youth Peace Prize and was selected for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize. On 12 July 2013, Malala Yousafzai spoke at the UN to call for worldwide admittance to education, while in September 2013 she formally released the Library of Birmingham.
On 12 July 2013, Malala Yousafzai‘s 16th birthday, she spoke at the UN to call for worldwide admittance to education. The UN dubbed the event “Malala Day”. It was her first public speech meanwhile the attack.
“The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born … I am not against anyone, neither am I here to speak in terms of personal revenge against the Taliban or any other terrorist group. I’m here to speak up for the right of education for every child. I want education for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all terrorists and extremists.”
Malala Yousafzai acknowledged numerous standing endorsements. Ban Ki-moon, who also spoke at the session, pronounced her as “our hero”.
The Pakistani government did not statement on Yousafzai’s UN appearance, during a repercussion against her in Pakistan’s press and social media. Dawn columnist Huma Yusuf abridged three main grievances of Yousafzai’s critics: “Her fame highlights Pakistan’s most negative aspect (rampant militancy); her education campaign echoes Western agendas; and the West’s admiration of her is hypocritical because it overlooks the plight of other innocent victims, like the casualties of U.S. drone strikes.” Journalist Assed Baig described her as being used to justify Western imperialism as “the perfect candidate for the white man to relieve his burden and save the native”. Malala Yousafzai was also accused on social media of being a prostitute and a CIA spy.
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