[62], The murder attempt received worldwide media coverage and produced an outpouring of sympathy and anger. I'm here to speak up for the right of education for every child. "[176], Yousafzai had said that she did not understand why people had to marry. All rights reserved. [141] However, Yousafzai noted in 2018 that her goal had changed, stating that "now that I have met so many presidents and prime ministers around the world, it just seems that things are not simple and there are other ways that I can bring the change that I want to see. [183] Her statements conflicted with the view that militancy in Pakistan was a result of Western interference,[151] and conservatives and Islamic fundamentalists described her ideology as "anti-Pakistan". On 24 January 2009, Yousafzai wrote: "Our annual exams are due after the vacations but this will only be possible if the Pakistani Taliban allow girls to go to school. [212] Rebecca Gurney of The Daily Californian gives the book a grade of 4.5 out of 5, calling it a "beautiful account of a terrifying but inspiring tale" and commenting "Though the story begins with fantasy, it ends starkly grounded in reality. Our previous stories can be found, I could not even wear my school uniform because they might throw acid on my face. @Malala suffered firsthand under the Pakistani Taliban. Based in Birmingham, she co-founded the Malala Fund, a non-profit organisation, with Shiza Shahid. Yousafzai's family was denied permission to attend the award ceremony in India by Pakistani authorities over security concerns, so the award was smuggled to her father by British-Pakistani film maker Sevy Ali. She wrote in her blog: "We went to the supermarket to buy a gift for our mother but it was closed, whereas earlier it used to remain open till late. [5], Following the documentary, Yousafzai was interviewed on the national Pashto-language station AVT Khyber, the Urdu-language Daily Aaj, and Canada's Toronto Star. Kabul, Afghanistan, 10 August 2021. . There are so many crises in our country. [39] The night before the ban took effect was filled with the noise of artillery fire, waking Yousafzai several times. [83] Pakistani officials offered a 10million rupee (US$105,000) reward for information leading to the arrest of the attackers. [25], Yousafzai was born on 12 July 1997 in the Swat District of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, into a lower-middle-class family. We watch in complete shock as Taliban takes control of Afghanistan. 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[170], In July 2021, amid a major offensive by the Taliban insurgents, Yousafzai urged the international community to press for an immediate ceasefire in Afghanistan and provide humanitarian aid to Afghan civilians. Accessed 19 Aug 2021. 17 Aug 2021. [61] On Facebook, where she was an active user, she began to receive threats. Malala's Story Learn how Malala began her fight for girls from an education activist in Pakistan to the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate and how she continues her campaign through Malala Fund. Do not come with your wardrobe notes. Nobel Prize. Yousafzai received several standing ovations. [39][54] On 19 December 2011, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani awarded her the National Peace Award for Youth. The following day, she also read for the first time excerpts from her blog that were published in a local newspaper. In solidarity, private schools for boys had decided not to open until 9 February, and notices appeared saying so. The Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for publicly advocating education for women and girls, has said she is in complete shock that the group has taken control of Afghanistan. When the Taliban took over Malala's home region in Pakistan in 2009, she was only 11-years-old and using the pseudonym Gul Makai, spoke out against the law in a secret diary for the BBC, where she captured the attention of the global community. And it is an unusual story, but also, this was the case because what I was experiencing was unusual for girls. Around the time Malala was ten years old, the Taliban began to take over the region where she lived. It opened two summers ago. Yousafzai survived the assassination attempt and spoke all over the world about the importance of the education of girls. [28] The family did not have enough money for a hospital birth and Yousafzai was born at home with the help of neighbours. Only 11 out of 27 pupils attended the class because the number decreased because of the Pakistani Taliban's edict. [5], That month, after criticising militants at a press conference, Yousafzai's father received a death threat over the radio by a Pakistani Taliban commander. [23] In August 2015, she received 6 A*s and 4 As at GCSE level. Speak up, otherwise I will shoot you all. [67] Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that Yousafzai would be moved to Germany, where she could receive the best medical treatment, as soon as she was stable enough to travel. [39] Eventually, a Pakistani Taliban spokesman said they were "forced" to act. [10] In early 2009, when she was 11, she wrote a blog under her pseudonym Gul Makai for the BBC Urdu to detail her life during the Taliban's occupation of Swat. [45], On 15 February, gunshots were heard in Mingora's streets, but Yousafzai's father reassured her, saying, "Don't be scaredthis is firing for peace." There are no women in the streets the day life changed in Kabul. Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai first came to public attention in 2009 when she wrote a BBC diary about life under the Taliban. I am deeply worried about women, minorities and human rights advocates. Mingora is the largest city in the Swat Valley of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in Pakistan. Pointing out that the person who attacked her was a young boy, she says: "He thought he was doing the right thing". After two decades of military presence in Afghanistan, Taliban insurgents have swiftly taken over the country in recent weeks and took the capital, Kabul, on Sunday with little resistance. Ever since she was a little girl, she knew that their was more to her life than being an everyday housewife. She is also the world's youngest Nobel Prize laureate. [72] According to media reports at the time, the UK Government stated that "[t]he Pakistani government is paying all transport, migration, medical, accommodation and subsistence costs for Malala and her party. Had they conducted their operations here properly, this situation would not have arisen. [46] Three days later, Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi leader Maulana Fazlulla announced on his FM radio station that he was lifting the ban on women's education, and girls would be allowed to attend school until exams were held on 17 March, but that they had to wear burqas. We call on Pakistan to agree to a plan to deliver education for every child. We were told to prepare certain chapters for the exam but I do not feel like studying."[45]. The UN dubbed the event "Malala Day". [66], On 11 October 2012, a panel of Pakistani and British doctors decided to move Yousafzai to the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi. On 8 October 2013 Malala, at the age of 16, visited The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, an American television programme, her first major late night appearance. Malala shows her need for control over her life from the very beginning when she begins her fight for education. After the Taliban took over, she was forbidden from attending school. "[143], Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown arranged for Yousafzai's appearance before the United Nations in July 2013. On 9 October 2012, a Taliban gunman shot Yousafzai as she rode home on a bus after taking an exam in Pakistan's Swat Valley. On the program they discussed her assassination attempt, human rights, and women's education. 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However, in some regions recently captured by the Taliban women have been prevented from attending schools and universities and banned from leaving the house without a male escort. I have had such dreams since the launch of the military operation in Swat. AP . We call on international organisations to ensure the world's 61million out-of-school children are in education by the end of 2015. [133][134], Yousafzai has repeatedly condemned the Rohingya persecution in Myanmar. "[64] The Pakistani Taliban also justified its attack as part of religious scripture, stating that the Quran says that "people propagating against Islam and Islamic forces would be killed", going on to say that "Sharia says that even a child can be killed if he is propagating against Islam". Meeting Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi,[191] she gave a speech in which she said it had been her dream to return without any fear. Yousafzai at Women of the World Festival, 2014. . I am deeply worried about women, minorities and human rights advocates. She was flown to the UK and treated for her injuries in Birminghams Queen Elizabeth hospital, before continuing her activism, setting up the Malala Fund charity for girls education, and completing a degree in philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford. She wanted to go to school. Some people are saying that the peace agreement is not permanent, it is just a break in fighting. [57] By 2012, she was planning to organise the Malala Education Foundation, which would help poor girls go to school. Ban Ki-moon, who also spoke at the session, described her as "our hero". "[45] Attendance at Yousafzai's class was up to 19 of 27 pupils by 1 March, but the Pakistani Taliban were still active in the area. [105] Using the slogan "I am Malala", the petition's main demand was that there be no child left out of school by 2015, with the hope that "girls like Malala everywhere will soon be going to school". Like many women, I fear for my Afghan sisters.. Graham-Harrison, Emma. Mingora was evacuated and Yousafzai's family was displaced and separated. Death threats against her were published in newspapers and slipped under her door. A team of doctors would travel with her, and the government would bear the cost of her treatment. [184], On 29 March 2018, Yousafzai returned to Pakistan for the first time since the shooting. [47], After the BBC diary ended, Yousafzai and her father were approached by New York Times reporter Adam B. Ellick about filming a documentary. Innocent victims are killed in these acts, and they lead to resentment among the Pakistani people. [202] Fatima Bhutto, reviewing the book for The Guardian called the book "fearless" and stated that "the haters and conspiracy theorists would do well to read this book", though she criticised "the stiff, know-it-all voice of a foreign correspondent" that is interwoven with Yousafzai's. Christiane Amanpour (@camanpour). [87] British Foreign Secretary William Hague called the shooting "barbaric" and that it had "shocked Pakistan and the world". And I will tell him, "That"s what I want to tell you, now do what you want. After her own marriage in 2021 she said that she had not been against marriage, but had concerns about it related to child marriage and forced marriage, and unequal marriages where "women make more compromises than men". Deutsche Welle reported in January 2013 that she may have become "the most famous teenager in the world". On the third day after Kabul was captured, Taliban forces knocked on the door and took my 18-year-old brother. [96], On 12 October 2012, a group of Islamic clerics in Pakistan issued a fatw a ruling of Islamic law against the Taliban gunmen who tried to kill Yousafzai. [11] The attempt on her life sparked an international outpouring of support. I missed my exams on August 12 and I feel my future is insecure now. They knew about our profession and told him that we should go to the police station . But then I said, "If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. It was her first public speech since the attack,[146] leading the first ever Youth Takeover of the UN, with an audience of over 500 young education advocates from around the world. [41] In May, the Pakistani Army moved into the region to regain control during the Second Battle of Swat (also known as Operation Rah-e-Rast). [184][185], In 2015, the All Pakistan Private Schools Federation (APPSF) banned her autobiographical book, I Am Malala, at all Pakistani private schools, with the APPSF president Mirza Kashif Ali releasing his own book against her, I Am Not Malala. [115][116], From March 2013 to July 2017, Yousafzai was a pupil at the all-girls Edgbaston High School in Birmingham. Then I said I will tell him how important education is and that "I even want education for your children as well." Yousafzai, Malala. Yousafzai was forced to flee Pakistans Swat Valley when it was taken over by the Taliban in 2008 and girls were banned from going to school. ", "Malala Yousafzai: 'I want to become prime minister of my country', "Malala Yousafzai Wants To Become The Prime Minister Of Pakistan", "Malala Yousafzai: 'The west is viewed as an ideal, but there's still a lot of work to be done', "Malala Yousafzai Sounds Off on Trump to Letterman: 'I'm a Muslim,' Does He Want to Ban Me? "[45], On 9 March, Yousafzai wrote about a science paper that she performed well on, and added that the Taliban were no longer searching vehicles as they once did. Acting upon the information received during his interrogation, all other members of the militant group were arrested. I am deeply worried about women, minorities and human rights advocates. AP/Rahmat Gul Taliban fighters stand guard in front of the Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 16, 2021. Like many women, I fear for my Afghan sisters., that the Taliban will impose rules that will eliminate womens rights, causing many to attempt to flee the country or, While calling on countries to open their borders to Afghan refugees, Yousafzai said she has, to the leader of her home country, Prime Minister Imran Khan, asking him to welcome refugees to Pakistan and also ensure that refugee children and girls have access to education and have access to safety and protection., Editors note: FactCheck.org is one of several organizations, to debunk misinformation shared on social media. Malala (@Malala). According to reports, a masked gunman shouted: "Which one of you is Malala? Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban for speaking out against educational bans. [23] From there she won a place at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and undertook three years of study for a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), graduating in 2020. It seems that it is only when dozens of schools have been destroyed and hundreds others closed down that the army thinks about protecting them. [211] In a review for The Guardian, Imogen Carter describes the book as "enchanting", opining that it "strikes just the right balance" between "heavy-handed" and "heartfelt", and is a "welcome addition to the frustratingly small range of children's books that feature BAME central characters". In the column, she wrote: The Taliban who until losing power 20 years ago barred nearly all girls and women from attending school and doled out harsh punishment to those who defied them are back in control. . [58] In 2012, she attended the International Marxist Tendency National Marxist Summer School. In defense of Yousafzai, a Twitter account, @insta.single. In addition to tweeting about the Talibans takeover the day it happened, The Taliban who until losing power 20 years ago barred nearly all girls and women from attending school and doled out harsh punishment to those who defied them are back in control. 16 Aug 2021. Pakistani education activist and Nobel laureate, "Malala" redirects here. "[168], Adn Corts, a college student from Mexico City and asylum seeker, interrupted Yousafzai's Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in protest for the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping in Mexico, but was quickly taken away by security personnel. [70], Offers to treat Yousafzai came from around the world. "[137] Yousafzai also posted a statement on Twitter calling for Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to condemn the treatment of the Rohingya people in Myanmar. [164] She is the second Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize after 1979 Physics laureate Abdus Salam. [147], 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. Yousafzai was 15 years old when her advocacy for education made her the target of a Taliban assassination attempt.. On Oct. 9, 2012, a masked gunman jumped into a pickup truck taking girls home . [97], Although the attack was roundly condemned in Pakistan,[98] "some fringe Pakistani political parties and extremist outfits" have aired conspiracy theories, such as the shooting being staged by the American Central Intelligence Agency to provide an excuse for continuing drone attacks. We call on all countries to outlaw discrimination against girls. Afghan women fear return to dark days amid Taliban sweep, Timeline of U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan. Global, regional and local powers must call for an immediate ceasefire, provide urgent humanitarian aid and protect refugees and civilians. We can't work. 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