Malala Research Paper

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Malala was a female student who grew up in swat valley around 1997. She was born on 12 July 1997 in Mingora, a town in the Swat District of north-west Pakistan. Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai named her after Malalai(a Pashtun heroine). Ziauddin always loved to learn and teach so he ran a school in Swat adjacent to the family's home. He was known as an advocate for education in Pakistan, which has the second highest number of out of school children in the world and became an outspoken opponent of Taliban efforts to restrict education and stop girls from going to school.The Taliban in Afghanistan were accused of providing a sanctuary to Osama Bin Laden and the al-Qaeda movement who were blamed for the attacks. Soon after 9/11, the Taliban were driven from power in …show more content…
3. advocating or opposing a cause or issue vigorously, especially a political cause: ... activist, pacifist, passivist.). Malala shared her father’s passion for learning and loved going to school. In 2009, as the Taliban’s military hold on Swat intensified, Malala began writing a blog for the BBC Urdu service under a pseudonym(a fictitious name, especially one used by an author. ), about fears that her school would be attacked and the increasing military activity in Swat. Television and music were banned, women were prevented from going shopping and then Ziauddin was told that his school had to close. Malala and her father had received many threats that warned them of death if they did not stop, but Malala and her father continued to speak out for the right to education. Around this time, Malala was featured in a documentary made for The New York Times and was revealed as the author of the BBC blog. Malala was awarded the Pakistan's first national peace prize in 2011. She was also nominated by Archbishop Desmond Tutu for the International Children's Peace