PAKISTAN: MALALA YOUSUFZAI DEBUT TWEET

ACTION RESEARCH FORUM: RATIONALITY PREVAILED TO COMBAT FAITH FUNDAMENTALISM INCORPORATED BY ARAB CULTURE LURING TO BACK TO FUTURE, AGAINST THE TIME.

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Malala Yousafzai tweets for the first time, gets thousands of followers within minutes

ByAnees Hanif

Posted on July 7, 2017

Pakistan’s brave daughter Malala Yousafzai has tweeted for the first time from her official Twitter account and is gaining followers in thousands within an hour after the tweet.

Her Twitter account has gained almost 105K followers from her first tweet till the filing of this report.

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ABOUT MALALA

Malala 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, who has always loved learning, 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.

BECOMING AN EDUCATION ACTIVIST

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, 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 received death threats but 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.

PAKISTAN’S FIRST NATIONAL YOUTH PEACE PRIZE

In 2011, she received Pakistan’s first National Youth Peace Prize and was nominated by Archbishop Desmond Tutu for the International Children’s Peace Prize. In response to her rising popularity and national recognition, Taliban leaders voted to kill her.

Attacked for Going to School

On 9 October 2012, as Malala and her friends were travelling home from school, a masked gunman entered their school bus and asked for Malala by name. She was shot with a single bullet which went through her head, neck and shoulder. Two of her friends were also injured in the attack.

Malala survived the initial attack, but was in a critical condition. She was moved to Birmingham in the United Kingdom for treatment at a hospital that specialises in military injuries. She was not discharged until January, 2013 by which time she had been joined by her family in the UK.

The Taliban’s attempt to kill Malala received worldwide condemnation and led to protests across Pakistan. In the weeks after the attack, over 2 million people signed a right to education petition, and the National Assembly swiftly ratified Pakistan’s first Right To Free and Compulsory Education Bill.

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