THE HAGUE: Malala Yousufzai has won the prestigious International Children’s Peace Prize, KidsRights announced on Tuesday. The 16-year-old will receive the award from 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner and women’s rights campaigner Tawakkol Karman at a glittering ceremony in The ...
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MALALA Yousufzai has been awarded a prestigious peace prize for her courage and determination. Malala was the latest in a line of notable recipients of the Tipperary International Peace Award. In her acceptance speech before an audience of around 200 ...
Read More »Significance of the female jirga
It is intriguing to notice how a group of women have come together in Swat, of all places, to form a female jirga to improve access to justice. Swat is the same place where the Taliban shot and wounded Malala ...
Read More »The compulsions of being Malala Yousufzai
Watching Malala Yousufzai’s unconscious form being whisked away on a stretcher must have been one of the lowest points of despair in a decade littered with shattering events. To hear her voice ring out once again strong and clear, and blessedly familiar, was therefore an experience that words have tried to capture but failed. The [...]
Read More »ROVER’S DIARY: Malala’s struggle critics are blinded by anti-westernism
By: Babar Ayaz If today Gordon Brown, the US and UN support the women’s education cause in Pakistan and Afghanistan, should we stop supporting the right cause? If I am killed by a stray bullet in a gunfight between the security forces and terrorists or dacoits, as bad luck would have it I was at [...]
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