Malala receives Tamgha-e-Shujaat

LONDON:

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai was honored with Tamgha-e-Shujaat (medal for bravery) in a ceremony held at Pakistan’s High Commission in London.

Deputy high commissioner gave the medal to Malala, who dedicated the award to the schoolchildren of APS Peshawar. It should be mentioned here that more than 150 schoolchildren were killed by Taliban in Peshawar school attack on December 16th 2014.

Malala became a global icon after she was shot by the Taliban in October 2012 for insisting that girls had a right to an education.