Malala Yousufzai, a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel prize recipient. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province ofNorthwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban at times, have imposed a ban on girls education.
Before being shot by Taliban in 2012, she had been campaigning for girls’ right to education in Swat and was a vocal critic of Islamic extremists. She has come a long way since then. She has now become an international icon of resistance, women’s empowerment and right to education, and has received numerous awards, including the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize and the European Union’s prestigious Sakharov Prize. She co-founded the Malala Fund – a New York-based nonprofit that aims to improve girls’ access to education – in 2013. There are many people in Pakistan for whom Malala’s name has become synonymous with the fight against extremism and the Taliban.
“Malala has been portrayed as a western agent in Pakistan that is brimming with anti-West sentiment. Malala Yousafzai has already fought for several years for the right of girls to education, and has shown by example that children and young people, too, can contribute to improving their own situations.
Mala Yousafzai deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, for her many advancements in women’s rights. She underwent several risks to educate people in the West about the lives of women in her country, and about the lack of education that most women suffer. She has made the world a better place through her work and is deserving of the award.And who knows maybe she has inspired a lot of girls already. Things that she is fighting for never have a quick result.
Malala as a symbol of pride for the country, the teenager has become an extremely divisive figure in Pakistan. She now aspires to the Prime Minister of Pakistan if provided a chance. That will be how she will be able to spread her cause of fight. Her fight against the evils that degrades the girls and keeps them away of their individual and fundamental rights of education will still continue until these evils are washed off.
This is the major breaking point of her future. Will she be able to grab peoples’ support for her long aspirations of bringing a valuable change in Pakistan?
