Malala Yousafzai was born in 1998. She is a school student and education activist from the town of Mingora in Swat. She is known for her education and women’s rights activism in Swat valley, where the Taliban have banned girls from attending schools.
The New York Times filmed a documentary on her life just as the Pakistan Army intervened in the region, culminating in the second battle of Swat. She has won Pakistan’s first National Youth Peace Prize. In 2009, Malala wrote against Taliban on BBC Urdu. Her father took her to Peshawar to speak at the local press club where she asked: “How dare Taliban take away my basic right to education?”
On 9 October, Malala was shot in the head by Taliban but she survived and her health is improving. In my opinion, it’s all propaganda against Pakistan. The US wants to hide its terrorist activities, like drone attacks, which are happening in Waziristan and also wants to divert our attention from the blasphemous movie “Innocence of Muslims”, but Americans can never get what they want because we have the power of Holy Quran. We know what is wrong and what is right.
SABA SHABBIR
Islamabad
