Youngest Messenger of Peace In Islamabad, Youngest Messenger of

Youngest Messenger of Peace In Islamabad

Youngest Messenger of Peace In Islamabad: Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Pakistani education activist has come to Pakistan after almost six years since she got attacked by Taliban in Swat for promoting girls education back in 2012.

Malala, the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, was shot in the head and then she flew to London for treatment has arrived in Pakistan last night on a four day visit. She was received by the government officials at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport and reached her hotel under a VIP protocol. Her father, mother and two brothers are accompanying her. Her details of the visit are kept secret due to the security sensitivity. However, in general she will meet Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and other senior government officials and representatives.

Honors For Malala

In 2009, a documentary film was made about her pursuit in the promotion of education for girls in Swat.
She was nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize by The Kids Rights Foundation in 2011.
The Pakistani government awarded her the National Peace Award that was renamed as the National Malala Peace Prize for those under 18 years old in 2012.
At 17, she became the youngest person to win the Nobel peace prize in 2014.
She got the honor of becoming the youngest Messenger of Peace, the highest honor given by the UN for an initial period of two years in 2017 to promote girl’s education at the age of 19.
Yousafzai became 6^th person globally, and the youngest, to receive honorary Canadian citizenship.

She is now staying at Oxford University for higher studies and runs “Malala Foundation” with the goal of working for a world where every girl can learn and lead without fear. Malala’s support for education has grown into an international movement. The brave Pakistani girl Malala kept a diary in which she explained how she was affected by Taliban and the girls in her area under the pen name “Gul Makai”, the name of the heroine from a local Pashtun folk tale.