Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai S.St is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Yousafzai's advocacy has since grown into an international movement...
NationalityPakistani
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth12 July 1997
CityMingora, Pakistan
CountryPakistan
Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.
At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
We must tell girls their voices are important.
In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.
I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy.
All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
I'm not becoming western; I am still following my Pashtun culture, and I'm wearing a shalvar kamiz, a dupatta on my head.
What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.
There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.
I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.
Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.
My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'