Malala Yousafzai – the Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest recipient of Nobel Peace Prize – wants to do ‘something’ for her Indian sisters.
Speaking at an event on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum meeting (January 23-26) in Davos, Switzerland, Malala said that she wanted to visit India in order to meet the Indian people. She also said that the problems faced by girls in neighbouring India and Pakistan are almost the same. She expressed to the audience that she would try to resolve those problems through discussions with the Indian girls.
Malala revealed that she received so many letters from India and those encouraged her to know more about India. She received a letter from a little Indian girl a couple of months ago. The sender wrote that she wanted to become the prime minister of India so that “one day, we both will be PMs and then we will negotiate and bring peace between the two countries”, recalled the young Pakistani activist.

Malala Yousafzai

Overwhelmed with the love and support she receives from the Indians, Malala stressed: “That touched my heart that the future generation is not only thinking about education, but they – especially girls – want to be leaders as well. They want to be PMs, presidents and this gives me hope for the future.”
The 20-year-old activist further said that she had already started making preparations for a visit to India. “I have watched so many Indian dramas and films, and I know already a lot about the country. I know ‘Hindi’ as well that I learnt from Indian TV channels. We connect in many ways and there is a lot to learn from each other’s culture and values,” she insisted.

Malala further expressed hope the girls would normalise ties between India and Pakistan through serious efforts. At the same time, she urged the two South Asian nations to protect and educate their girls, thus, allowing them to play a bigger role in nation building. “When we talk about the future of India and future of Pakistan, then we have to invest in our girls because they are the future. How can we make our future better and brighter when we ignore these millions of girls by not giving them education? When we educate girls, we are not just educating them individually, but we are also empowering them and we are giving them opportunity to earn for themselves,” she added.
Malala – who was shot at by Taliban at the age of 15 for defying the ban on girls going to school – became the ‘UN Messenger of Peace’ after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, she met various global leaders and CEOs to seek their support for the Malala Fund, founded by her for investing in girls’ education across the world.

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