Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai: Biography in Details

Who is Malala Yousafzai?

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate.

Similarly, she is well known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban stays.

Malala Yousafzai: Childhood, Education, Family

Malala Yousafzai was born in Mingora, Swat, Pakistan on July 12, 1997, to parents Ziauddin Yousafzai and Toor Pekai Yousafzai. She has two siblings namely, Atal Yousafzai and Khushal Yousafzai. She belongs to Pakistani- Canadian nationality and Pashtun ethnicity. Her birth sign is Cancer.

Her childhood was not normal because her place was captured by terrorist groups and they had many objections in the name of Islam. They used to kill civilians, soldiers, policemen, etc. for their profit. The people in her valley lived in fear of dying anytime soon.

However, Malala Yousafzai was very close to her parents, especially her father. Unlike other men in her village, her father encouraged her to become educated and taught her the power of the pen. Her father had opened a school named Khushal Public School. Since, her childhood her father knew that the way Malala talks, she is meant to be a politician or a speaker.

Talking about her education, firstly, she attended Khushal Public School. Then, she attended Edgbaston High School. She was amongst the toppers in her school. She was a very competitive student.

Malala Yousafzai: Early Professional Career

Talking about her profession, she was interviewed on the national Pashto-language station AVT Khyber, the Urdu-language Daily Aaj, and Canada’s Toronto Star.

Similarly, she also made a second appearance on Capital Talk on 19 August 2009. Likewise, she also began appearing on television to publicly advocate for female education. In fact from 2009 to 2010 she was the chair of the District Child Assembly of the Khpal Kor Foundation 2009 2010.

Besides that, Malala Yousafzai was the first Pakistani girl to be nominated for the award. Similarly, in 2011, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani awarded her the National Peace Award for Youth.

The prime minister directed the authorities to set up an IT campus in the Swat Degree College for Women at Yousafzai’s request, and a secondary school was renamed in her honor. By 2012, she was planning to organize the Malala Education Foundation, which would help poor girls go to school.

Lifetime Achievements, Awards

In talking about her lifetime achievements and awards, she won Noble Peace Prize, Mother Teresa Awards, Rome Prize for Peace and Humanitarian Action, and Grammy Award for Best Children’s Album.

Malala Yousafzai: Social Media

Malala Yousafzai has 1.4M followers on Twitter. Similarly, she has 481K followers on Instagram. She doesn’t seem to be active on Facebook.

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