People often tend fight and resist the truth that was the awful story of Malala who was an advocate of peace in Pakistan before she was killed in cold blood “Who is Malala?” shouted the Taliban gunman
who leapt onto a crowded bus in northwestern Pakistan two years ago, then fired a bullet into
the head of Malala Yousafzai , a 15-year-old schoolgirl and outspoken activist.
That question has been answered many times since by Ms. Yousafzai herself, who survived her injuries and went on to become an impassioned advocate, global celebrity and, on Friday, the latest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize alongside the Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi.
Yet since that decisive gunshot in October 2012, Ms. Yousafzai and her compelling story have been reshaped by a range of powerful forces, though not always, for good in ways that have left her straddling perilous fault lines of culture, politics and religion.
In Pakistan, conservatives assailed the schoolgirl as an unwitting pawn in an American-led assault.
In the West, she came to embody the excesses of violent Islam, or was recruited by campaigners to
raise money and awareness for their causes. Ms. Yousafzai, guided by her father and a public
relations team, helped to transform that image
herself, co-writing a best-selling memoir.
who leapt onto a crowded bus in northwestern Pakistan two years ago, then fired a bullet into
the head of Malala Yousafzai , a 15-year-old schoolgirl and outspoken activist.
That question has been answered many times since by Ms. Yousafzai herself, who survived her injuries and went on to become an impassioned advocate, global celebrity and, on Friday, the latest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize alongside the Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi.
Yet since that decisive gunshot in October 2012, Ms. Yousafzai and her compelling story have been reshaped by a range of powerful forces, though not always, for good in ways that have left her straddling perilous fault lines of culture, politics and religion.
In Pakistan, conservatives assailed the schoolgirl as an unwitting pawn in an American-led assault.
In the West, she came to embody the excesses of violent Islam, or was recruited by campaigners to
raise money and awareness for their causes. Ms. Yousafzai, guided by her father and a public
relations team, helped to transform that image
herself, co-writing a best-selling memoir.
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