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New Delhi: In the picturesque Swat Valley of Pakistan, nestled amidst towering mountains, the young Malala Yousafzai dreamt of a world where every girl could learn and lead. Born in 1997, her path unfolded against the backdrop of a region grappling with extremist ideologies that sought to silence female ...

Source link www.rferl.org Pakistan has issued an ultimatum to the Afghan Taliban: Expel the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) extremist group from Afghanistan or face the consequences.Pakistan’s special representative for Afghanistan, Asif Durrani, repeated the warning on November 11, saying that the Afghan extremist group must “choose Pakistan or the ...

The Pakistani education advocate – who was shot by the Taliban for her activism - was speaking exactly 10 years after her landmark ‘Malala Day’ address to youth at UN Headquarters in New York, where she called for global action against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism.Passionate messageUN Deputy Secretary-General Amina ...

RAMGARH: A government high school in Kuju under the Mandu block of Ramgarh district was forced to remove photographs of Nobel laureate and girl education activist, Malala Yousafzai, of Pakistan two days ago, following a series of protests by locals and panchayat representatives in the last few days.The school ...

A statement issued by her foundation says the visit is ‘focused on the impact of floods in Pakistan and reinforce the need for critical humanitarian aid’.Islamabad, Pakistan – Activist and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai is visiting Pakistan’s flood-affected areas – her second visit to her home country since she ...

Malala Yousafzai was 15 when the Pakistani Taliban shot her in 2012. Now she is visiting her native country to meet flood victims and ‘reinforce the need for critical humanitarian aid’. Source link

The armed group ruling Afghanistan closed girls’ secondary schools just hours after reopening them this week.The Taliban’s ban on girls’ education will not last forever, Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has said, emphasising that Afghan women now know what it is to be “empowered”. The armed group, now ruling Afghanistan, ...

BENGALURU, India — Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has spoken out in support of six Indian students fighting for their right to wear the hijab in class.The teens have been protesting in Karnataka state for weeks, drawing attention to a college's ban on hijabs - described by Malala ...

New Delhi: Amid ongoing controversy over some Karnataka schools refusing entry to students wearing the hijab, Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday (February 8, 2022) hit out at Indian leaders and asked them to stop the marginalisation of Muslim women. The girls' education activist said that refusing to let ...

CHICAGO, United States Malala Yousafzai, famously shot by the Taliban for going to school in 2012, decried on Monday the turnabout happening now under Taliban rule in Afghanistan, where freedoms of women and education opportunities have disappeared.   Facing the media, and meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...