Malala Yousafzai a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. She is famous across the globe for human rights advocacy, especially right to education for women and backing education of women in her native place Swat Valley in Northwest Pakistan. The local Talibans banned girls from attending school at her place, but that didn’t stop her from getting the education. Ever since then, Malala became the face of […]

Berlin: Reaching across gulfs of age, gender, faith, nationality and even international celebrity, the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday awarded the 2014 peace prize to Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India, joining a teenage Pakistani known around the world with an Indian veteran of campaigns to end child labor and free children from trafficking. Malala, 17, is the youngest recipient of the $1.1 million prize since it […]

The Pakistani army said Friday it had arrested the gunmen who tried to kill schoolgirl campaigner Malala Yousafzai in the country’s restive northwest in 2012. The teenage activist was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen but recovered and went on to earn international plaudits for her fight for the right of all children to an education. The detention of the 10 men, a joint operation involving army, police and […]