Nobel Laureate Malala's Return To Pakistan Is A Slap In The Face Of Terrorists Who Tried To Kill Her
Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai returned to Pakistan on March 28. This is her first visit to her native country since she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman for advocating education for girls in 2012.
Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai returned to Pakistan on March 28. This is her first visit to her native country since she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman for advocating education for girls in 2012.
Details of Malala¡¯s visit to her home country have been kept under the wraps given the sensitive surroundings. The visit is expected to last four days and includes a meeting with Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.
The 20-year-old student was accompanied by her parents and escorted through Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International Airport under tight security.
Malala has become a global symbol for human rights and a vocal campaigner for girls' education since a gunman boarded her school bus in the Swat valley on October 9, 2012, asked "Who is Malala?" and shot her.
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, she has continued her campaigning while pursuing her studies at Oxford University.
Many Pakistanis were pleased to have Malala back in home despite ingoing fears.
I welcome #MalalaYousafzai the brave and resilient daughter of Pakistan back to her country.
¡ª Syed Ali Raza Abidi (@abidifactor) March 28, 2018
I am saying from personal experience that a good number of non-Muslims / foreigners have told me how much they've learned about Islam and respect it after listening to speeches of #MalalaYousafzai
¡ª Shaheera Jalil Albasit (@shaheerajalil) March 28, 2018
Dear Pakistanis! Malala is not your enemy. Your enemies were those monsters who shot her point blank on her way to school. Welcome home #MalalaYousafzai
¡ª Rehman Anwer (@rehmananwer) March 28, 2018
HOW INTERESTING. Those abusing #MalalaYousafzai for returning to Pakistan have abused her all these years for not returning to Pakistan. Bhai Chhahte Kiya Ho!!
¡ª Shaheera Jalil Albasit (@shaheerajalil) March 28, 2018
Stop hating her because she is famous and loved by millions around the world. Stop asking stupid questions like "Isney is Mulk ky liye kiya kya hey?" She was mere kid when she got shot at & who gives YOU the right to ask her to do anything for Pakistan ? #MalalaYousafzai
¡ª Zayn Ra (@iZaynRa) March 28, 2018
Welcome to Our Pride of the Nation. #MalalaYousafzai pic.twitter.com/FCvcOsHzgw
¡ª Rehman Wazir (@RehmanWazir_) March 28, 2018
However, there¡¯s a share of conservatives who are not happy with her return and view her as a Western agent on a mission to shame her country.
Why the hell we are giving protocol to her? Why fool-proof security? What she has done for pakistan? This is the reason we are lacking behind among other countries. We don't give protocl to educated or those who gave sacrifice for pakistan. ???#MalalaYousafzai
¡ª Muhammad Awais Tariq (@Awais_073) March 28, 2018
The return of #MalalaYousafzai is part of bigger game. The Game which CIA, RAW and NDS almost lost. The game which created PTM.
¡ª Aftab Afridi (@AftabAfridiPTI) March 28, 2018
#MalalaYousafzai
¡ª Kamil Mehar (@mehar_kamil) March 28, 2018
Pic of no. of schools made by @MalalaFund in pakistan. pic.twitter.com/gR5UfbgVMZ
Drama Queen, sent on a mission to create another drama. #MalalaYousafzai
¡ª Rehan (@rahmad7) March 29, 2018
Malala began campaigning when she was just 11 and started writing her blog -- under a pseudonym -- for the BBC's Urdu service in 2009 about life under the Taliban in Swat, where they were banning girls' education.
In 2007, Islamist militants took over the area, which Malala affectionately called "My Swat", and imposed a brutal, bloody rule.