Malala Yousafzai

Youngest Noble Prize Winner Award Holder

• Malala was born July 12th
1997 in Mingora, Pakistan.
She lived with her parents
who later had two sons.
• For the first few years of her
life, her hometown remained
a popular tourist spot that
was known for its summer
festivals.
• However, the area began to
change as the militant group
Taliban tried to take control
after America attacked on
Afghanistan.
• In the area Malala lived, known as the
Swat Valley which has a boarder with
Afghanistan after the America attacked
on Afghanistan some foreign funded
militants group crossed the boarder and
make safe hideouts in swat valley the
militant group called Taliban, at times
satrted banning girls from attending
school.

• Malala spoke out for the right of

children, of girls in a place where some
people believe that girls should not go to
school.

• She attended a school that her father

had founded.

• After the Taliban began attacking girls'

schools in Swat, Malala gave a speech
in Peshawar, Pakistan, in September
2008.

• The title of her talk was, "How dare

the Taliban take away my basic
right to education?"
• Her father ran a number of
schools in the region, was also
a keen education activist.
• Malala continued to share her
views regarding education
rights for girls.
• She won Pakistan’s first
National Youth Peace Prize.
• Later in 2011, at the age of 14,
she was nominated for the
International Children's Peace
Prize.
•  In early 2009, when she was 11–12, she wrote a blog under a pseudonym
for the BBC Urdu detailing her life during the militant group Taliban
occupation of Swat. As a result of the World Wide Web, she gained interest
from all around the world.
• In writing this blog she risked her life her goals was to expose the acts of
militant group and promote education for women
• Malala began to rise in prominence and gave interviews. She took on the
role of chairperson of the District Child Assembly Swat  and she was
nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by activist Desmond
Tutu.
• Unfortunately the blog made her a target for the militant group.
• On the 9th October 2012,
aged 15, Malala was shot by
the Taliban whilst returning
home on the school bus.
Malala was immediately
airlifted to Pesawar where
they removed the bullet from
near her spinal cord.
• She was later taken to a
hospital in London for further
treatment.
• In the days after the attack,
she was in a critical condition
but later her she began to
make a good recovery.
• Gunmen halted the van ferrying Malala Yousafzai
through her native Swat Valley, one of the most
beautiful regions in Pakistan.
• They demanded that other girls in the vehicle identify
her. Malala had faced frequent death threats in the
past.
• Some of the girls pointed her out.
• At least one gunman opened fire, wounding three
girls.
• Two suffered non-life-threatening injuries, but bullets
struck Malala in the head and neck.
• She remained unconscious and in critical condition at
the Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology
•  An uncle described her as having excruciating pain
and being unable to stop moving her arms and legs.
• Her condition later improved enough for her to
be transferred to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital
 in Birmingham, UK
• Even as Malala was recovering from her ordeal, she
continued to speak fearlessly for girls’ education and
speaking against the oppressive Taliban.
• Politicians around the world demanded that all children
worldwide be in school by the end of 2015.
• On the day of the attack, spokesperson for the militant group Taliban,
Ehsanullah Ehsan, confirmed to international media that they attacked
her because she was continuously exposing us and she was anti
Taliban.
 
• Taliban officials responded to condemnation by further
denouncing Yousafzai, indicating plans for a possible second
assassination attempt, which was justified as a religious
obligation. Their statements resulted in further international
condemnation

•  After the attempted murder, a group of fifty leading Muslim

clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwā against those who tried to
kill her.

• After the attack Pakistan Army did operation “Rahe Rast” and cleared
all the terrorist hideouts and killed more than 6000 militants while 400
soldiers were martyred. Now the whole area is under army control and
many girls cadet colleges and universities has been made.
 Malala’s Courage

•The shooting resulted in a massive outpouring of support for Yousafzai, which

continued during her recovery.
•Following her recovery, Yousafzai
became a prominent activist for the 
right to education

•Based in Birmingham, she co-founded

the Malala Fund, a non-profit organisation
with Shiza Shahid.

•Website : www.malala.org

•in 2013 co-authored I Am Malala, an

international best seller.

•She gave a speech at the United Nations

on her 16th birthday, in 2013.
•
•She has also written an autobiography, I
Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for
Education and Was Shot by the Taliban,
which was released in October 2013.
 Achievements

• Malala was awarded the International Peace Prize of 2014.

• Malala said, having been awarded the prize, “My message to children
all around the world is that they should stand up for their rights.”
She has also been awarded with  Sakharov Prize in 2013.

In 2015, Yousafzai was a subject of the Oscar-shortlisted documentary He

Named Me Malala

In 2017, she was awarded honorary Canadian citizenship and became the

youngest person to address the House of Commons of Canada.
• In 2013, 2014 and 2015  Time magazine featured her as one of the
most influential people globally.

• In 2015, Yousafzai was a subject of the Oscar-shortlisted

documentary He Named Me Malala
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Malala Yousafzai Quotes
Malala Yousafzai Quotes
• “Malala Yousafzai is a very global symbol of
every girl’s right to an education”
Ban Ki-moon
(Former UN Secretary General)
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