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Malala Yousafzai (Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی, Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ, pronunciation: [məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj]; [4] born 12 July 1997) [1] [4] [5] is a Pakistani female education activist, film and television producer, and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate [6] at the age of 17.
The report cleared Mashal of all blasphemy charges and termed his lynching a premeditated murder conducted by certain elements in the student body and the university administration. The report also cleared Mashal's two friends, Abdullah and Zubair, of any blasphemy while raising questions about the efficacy of Mardan Police's response to the ...
In late 2011, Yousafzai begins to receive prizes for her activism. She travels to Karachi to talk to Geo TV, also visiting the mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Yousafzai receives death threats, which worries her parents. Following the shooting of Zahid Khan in August 2012, Ziauddin expected to be targeted next.
Malala Yousafzai has urged Muslim leaders to challenge the Taliban government in Afghanistan and its repressive policies for girls and women. "Simply put, the Taliban in Afghanistan do not see ...
On 12 October 2012, a group of 50 Islamic clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwā against the Taliban gunmen who tried to kill Malala Yousafzai. Islamic scholars from the Sunni Ittehad Council publicly denounced attempts by the Pakistani Taliban to mount religious justifications for the shooting of Yousafzai and two of her classmates. [10]
— Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, urging Muslim leaders on Sunday to back efforts to make gender apartheid a crime under international law, and calling on them to speak out against ...
Yousafzai, 27, also urged the attendees, which included dozens of ministers and scholars from Muslim nations, to “openly challenge and denounce” the Taliban by recognizing gender apartheid as ...
Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai said his "heart is bleeding" and his family is "traumatized" over the Peshawar school massacre. [ 40 ] The terrorist organization al-Qaeda 's spokesperson said that "Our hearts are bursting with pain" and that the soldiers should be targeted, not their children.