LONDON: Out of view of tourists and the media, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai is building a girls school in Pakistan, in a hill town not far from where she was shot in 2012 by the Taliban for going to school. The school being built will occupy land in ...
Read More »Malala Yousafzai attends first lecture at Oxford University
LONDON: Education rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai has attended her first lecture at the University of Oxford five years after she was shot by the Taliban. The 20-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner tweeted a photo of three philosophy books on Monday. She wrote: “5 years ago, I was shot in an ...
Read More »Over 0.3mn people sign petition asking to strip Suu Kyi of Nobel Prize
Over 3,035,000 people have signed a petition on Change.org demanding that the Nobel Peace Prize be taken back from Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi for failure to stop violence against the ethnic Rohingya Muslims in the country. Three million signatures are needed to forward the demand to the Norway-based ...
Read More »Malala’s biopic Gul Makai poster unveiled
LAHORE: TV child actor Reem Sheikh, who rose to fame in soaps like ‘Na Bole Tum Na Mene Kuch Kaha’ and ‘Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata hai’ is playing the lead role in Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai’s biopic ‘Gul Makai’. She was also seen in the Amitabh Bachchan-Farhan Akhtar-starrer Wazir. ...
Read More »Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai slams Trump’s border wall plans
MEXICO: President’s Trump’s vehement plan of a southern border wall around the Mexico border aimed at putting a leash on the influx of immigrants has received a lash from a notable Nobel Laureate. The Nobel laureate, Malala Yousafzai while speaking to an audience of students at an event in Mexico ...
Read More »Will go back to Pakistan after completing my studies: Malala
LONDON: Pakistani Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai stated that she will return to Pakistan after completion of her studies. Malala was recently accepted in University of Oxford for higher studies. While talking to a private TV channel, she said that after completing her study she will go to Pakistan. “I want ...
Read More »Malala Is Going To Oxford
Malala Yousafzai is congratulated after collecting her A-level exam results at Edgbaston High School for Girls in Birmingham, England. BIRMINGHAM: Malala Yousafzai was only 15 when she was shot by the Taliban in Pakistan for campaigning for the education of girls. Now, she has been accepted to Oxford, one of ...
Read More »Malala’s Magic Pencil: Twitter gets first glimpse of the picture book
LONDON: Malala Yousafzai recently gave the world the first look of her picture book through Twitter. Opened the mail and thrilled to find a copy of my first picture book, Malala’s Magic Pencil! pic.twitter.com/Zwoa1f28cC — Malala (@Malala) August 3, 2017 The book, called Malala’s Magic Pencil, tells about Malala’s childhood ...
Read More »Malala loved this Pakistani film
LONDON: Education campaigner and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has disclosed that she and her mother loved watching Pakistani romantic drama film Bin Roye. Bin Roye starring Mahira Khan and Humayun Saeed is the third highest-grossing Pakistani film. The youngest Nobel laureate made the disclosure on Twitter in response to Mahira ...
Read More »‘Malala Day’ celebrated globally
LONDON: Yesterday Malala Day was celebrated across the world in connection with the 20th birthday of famous female education activist and noble peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai. The United Nations had declared July 12th as Malala Day to commemorate not only young activist’s birthday, but also the day she delivered ...
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