Tag: Malala Yousafzai
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Taliban terrorist who shot Malala Yousafzai escapes from Pakistan jail
In the audio clip, Ehsanullah Ehsan said that he surrendered to the Pakistani security agencies on February 5, 2017, under an agreement but the forces failed to keep their promise made before the surrender.
February 7, 2020 -
Writing in Exile
Hailing from Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan, she too wrote a blog under a pseudonym for BBC Urdu exploring her life during the tenure of Taliban occupation of the Swat.
December 12, 2019 -
‘Kashmiri kids witnessed violence for decades’: Malala Yousafzai after Article 370 revoked
The region represented different cultures, religions, languages, cuisines and customs, she added.
August 8, 2019 -
Showing Pakistan its true self
Pakistan cricket is also the recipient of Pakistan’s greatest hopes and dreams.
July 9, 2019 -
Defuse the rising tensions, Nobel laureates urge Narendra Modi, Imran Khan
The Nobel laureates who signed the appeal included Malala Yousafzai, Leyma Gbowee, Shirin Ebadi, Tawakkol Karman, Muhammad Yunus, José Ramos-Horta, Edvard Ingjald Moser and May-Britt Mose among others.
March 4, 2019 -
In the name of honour
Souad, a girl from a West Bank village, was 17 when she fell in love. It was a horrific crime according to the local tradition, an extreme disrespect to the family, and punishable by death. She was burned with gasoline by her family members. However, Souad survived miraculously even after 70 per cent burns, with …
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November 8, 2018 -
Meeting you will be a privilege: Shah Rukh Khan to Malala Yousafzai
Shah Rukh Khan had last year revealed that he had been invited to address the students of Oxford University.
October 8, 2018 -
Malala is not a national hero
A small but vocal minority, most of them members of a growing conservative middle class, resent her. They label her as a fraud, traitor, sell-out, or American stooge. They say that there’s nothing special about her, that many Pakistani children suffer worse fates; that she’s abandoned her nation for fame in the West
April 8, 2018 -
Coming Home
If news travels fast from Islamabad to the hallowed portals of Oxford University, Malala Yousafzai’s robust defence of women’s education ought to be greeted with unqualified praise. Last Wednesday’s grandstanding in her honour was only in the fitness of things. Her brief return to Pakistan after close to six years is in itself testament to …
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April 1, 2018 -
Malala Yousafzai visits Pakistani home town where she was shot
Nobel peace laureate and young education activist Malala Yousafzai visited her home in Swat Valley, more than five years after she was shot in the head there by the Taliban. Malala Yousafzai, 20, along with her parents, State Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb and others landed near her family home in Mingora in the morning amid …
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March 31, 2018 -
Mahira welcomes ‘baby girl’ Malala in Pakistan
Actress Mahira Khan has welcomed Nobel Peace Prize laureate and social activist Malala Yousafzai, whom she described as a “baby girl”, on her returning to Pakistan nearly six years after she was attacked. “Welcome home baby girl Malala!” Mahira tweeted on Thursday morning. Yousafzai returned to Pakistan on Thursday, nearly six years after she was …
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March 29, 2018 -
Special screening of ‘Pad Man’ for Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai had expressed her solidarity with the message of menstrual hygiene in R. Balkis latest directorial “Pad Man”. Plans are afoot to show the film to the Nobel Peace Prize winner, says the director. “What can I say about Malala coming forward to support our film? We are blessed and honoured. It is voices …
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March 29, 2018 -
Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai makes first trip to Pakistan since Taliban attack
Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai returned to Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said, in her first visit to her native country since she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman for advocating education for girls in 2012. Precise details of her itinerary have been “kept secret in view of the sensitivity surrounding the visit,” …
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March 29, 2018 -
Special screening of ‘Pad Man’ for Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai had expressed her solidarity with the message of menstrual hygiene in R. Balkis latest directorial “Pad Man”. Plans are afoot to show the film to the Nobel Peace Prize winner, says the director. “What can I say about Malala coming forward to support our film? We are blessed and honoured. It is voices …
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February 15, 2018 -
Educating girls a collective responsibility, says Malala at Davos
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and social activist Malala Yousafzai on Thursday stressed collective responsibility to promote the education of young girls across the globe while addressing a session during the annual World Economic Forum here. Speaking at the session titled “An Insight, An Idea with Malala Yousafzai”, the 20-year-old activist admitted that the fight for female education …
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January 25, 2018 -
Message behind ‘Pad Man’ truly inspiring: Malala Yousafzai
Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has backed Twinkle Khanna’s film Pad Man on menstrual hygiene, saying it imparts an “inspiring” message. Yousafzai met Pad Man producer Twinkle as the latter addressed students at The Oxford Union, the world’s most prestigious debating society, on Thursday. “I’m really excited to see the film ‘Pad Man’… …
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January 19, 2018 -
What’s acceptable and what is not
In an interview, Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has talked of the girls’ education projects she is supporting in Pakistan but she declined to identify them lest they also face a security threat. A little over 20, Malala may be everyone’s darling. Wherever she travels from her UK base — from the Middle East, to Africa …
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November 6, 2017