Malala Yousafzai Story: Malala Yousafzai is a great personality, at a very young age she did a lot for Pakistani girls at the age of 17 she was awarded the great Nobel Peace Prize and is the youngest person to get this award. Well, today we will discuss that how she become an education activist and will take a look at her early life.
Malala Yousafzai Story: Nobel Prize Winner Malala’s Summary:
Malala Yousafzai was born on 12 July 1997 in the Swat District of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, into a lower-middle-class family. Her father “Ziauddin Yousafzai” is a poet, school owner, and an educational activist himself, who runs a chain of private schools known as the Khushal Public School. Malala was mostly educated by her father in her early days she aspired to become a doctor but her father encouraged her to become a politician and that is how her political career started.
As per Wikipedia, Malala was announced as the co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for her struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education. Yousafzai is the youngest person to have Nobel Peace Prize, she shared the prize with Kailash Satyarthi, who is a children’s rights activist from India.
Before winning Nobel Prize, Malala went through the worst phase of her life when a Taliban gunman shot her on October 9, 2012, well later police identified the shooter who was 23-year-old Atta Ullah Khan, a graduate student in chemistry. In November 2012, the US reports confirmed that Mullah Fazlullah is the man behind the attack on Yousafzai, and he was hiding in eastern Afghanistan. Later he was killed by a U.S.-Afghan air strike in June 2018.
Malala Yousafzai Biography of Education Activist:
Well, Malala completed her basic studies mostly in England and London as per the reports. She completed her high school at the all-girls Edgbaston High School in Birmingham, she studied Geography, History, Mathematics, and Religious Studies at A-level. Later she applied to Durham University, the University of Warwick, and the London School of Economics (LSE). In 2017, she began studying Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University of Oxford.
Well, her activist career start when she gave her first speech “How Dare the Taliban Take Away My Basic Right to Education?” in September 2008 at the age of 11 at a local press club in Peshawar, Pakistan to protest the school closing. Her speech was publicized throughout Pakistan. In her activism career, there is a major influence of twice-elected, assassinated Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. She was also awarded for National Peace Award for Youth on 19 December 2011 by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani.
