Tag: Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai comes onboard as executive producer for Pakistan’s Oscar submission ‘Joyland’

 Female education activist Malala Yousafzai, who heads her own film and TV production company, Extracurricular Productions, is joining "Joyland", Pakistan's Oscar submission in the international feature category, as an executive producer, reports 'Variety'.

October 5, 2022

Malala launches film production career with three projects for Apple

Malala unveiled her first slate of film and TV projects for Apple TV+ through Extracurricular on Monday. Headlining the slate is the feature film adaptation of Elaine Hsieh Chou's acclaimed book "Disorientation", which was published earlier this year. A sharp-edged, celebrated satire, "Disorientation" is about a college student's revealing dissertation on a young poet.

September 28, 2022

Priyanka Chopra gives empowering speech at UN General Assembly

It's important to mention here that Priyanka Chopra is the UNICEF global goodwill ambassador. She has been working with the organisation for more than a decade now.

September 20, 2022

Indian leaders must stop marginalisation of Muslim women: Malala Yousafzai

The activist spoke against the decision and urged the Indian leaders to stop the "marginalisation of Muslim women".

February 9, 2022

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