MALALA BEFORE THE ATTACK

 Born July 12, 1997

 Hometown: Mingora, Swat, tourist destination

turned Taliban-haven

 Speech: "How dare the Taliban take away my

basic right to education?"

 Undercover blog for BBC under pseudonym Gul

Makai, the name of a heroine from a Pashtun
folk tale.
THE ATTACK
 9 October 2012 :
 15 year old Malala shot by a masked Taliban

 2 other girls, Shazia Ramzan and Kainat Riaz also

injured

 Ehsanullah Ehsan, Chief Spokesman for the

Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for shooting
Malala

 He characterized Malala as “the symbol of infidels

and obscenity”
CONSEQUENCES
 Discharged in January 2013 after being treated
in a hospital in Birmingham, UK.

 Attended Edgbaston High School and her father

was given a job with the Pakistani consulate in
Birmingham for three years.

 2017, she was accepted to study Politics,

Philosophy and Economics (PPE) at Oxford's
Lady Margaret Hall.
REACTIONS FROM PAKISTAN AND ABROAD
 Love and Support from the people, journalists,
politicians along with the Prime Minister.

 Certain right-wing conservatives who believe

that Malala is being used as an agent of the
West.
 The third segment of the On the Panorama program, Malala
people are those who described the consequences for those who
love and admire Malala dared to stand up to the Taliban in
but are uncomfortable Pakistan.
with the West’s "The Taliban's punishments were like
patronage of her slaughtering people on the Green Chowk
because they believe she [the main square in Malala's home town of
is being used to further Mingora], throwing acid on women's faces
their own agenda which or abusing them or killing them," she said.
is to justify and validate "There was fear all around us, in every
military intervention in street and in every square of Mingora."
the region
Maulana Gul Naseeb, a prominent
 They also believe that figure in the JUI-F, one of
she is bringing a bad Pakistan's leading religious
name to the country
political parties, was more
forthright.
"America created Malala in order
to promote their own culture of
 MALALA AND HER WORK
 The main aspect of Malala Yousafzai is her
belief in education. Her dilemma was the
cause of her interest in education, which says
much about her personality.
2009: Documentary film made on
Malala after her identity was
known
2011: Nominated for the
International Children's Peace
Prize by The KidsRights
Foundation
2012: Pakistani government
awarded her the National Peace
Award and subsequently renamed
the National Malala Peace Prize -
for those under 18 years old.
2013: 12th July declared as
2014: youngest person ever to win
a Nobel Peace Prize
2014: won the Eurpoean
Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for
Freedom of Thought
2014: Autobiography “I Am
Malala” released
2014: Among other trips, she
travelled to Nigeria, meeting
President Goodluck Jonathan to
press for action to free the 200 girls
held by Boko Haram Islamist
militants.
2015: Malala opens up a
secondary school for Syrian
WHAT DOES MALALA REPRESENT?
 "Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child,
and one teacher can change the world.“

 Right to an education that every child should

have irrespective of their circumstances — social,
economic or political.
 The very physical risks related to making this a
reality.
Swat as an area has
been cleared by the
military.

Education has
improved in Swat
since the Taliban
days.

 Since 2011 the proportion of girls going to school has

risen to nearly 50 per cent, from 34 per cent, while
that of boys is close to 90 per cent.
 Private sector has a high enrollment of girls,
especially in the urban areas.
 Govt sector is massively underfunded, with problems
of ghost schools and incompetent teachers
FEMALE EDUCATION: PROBLEMS
 Sexual harassment and gender-based violence
 Risk of bullying, the risk of discrimination and
stigma
 Early child marriages

 Pulling children out of school when they reach

puberty
 Pulling children out of school to support their
families and work on the field
 Lack of teacher training, monitoring and
evaluation
 Lack of a global drive toward improving
education