Saturday, October 12, 2013

OBAMA MEETS WITH MALALA YOUSAFZAI


U.S. President and the first lady met with Pakistani teenage activist at the white house on Friday, the same day she received her Noble prize award for peace. Malala was reportedly thanked by the president for her effort to save and promote women's education in Swat Valley, where girls' was banned in 2009, by the Taliban, a fundamentalist group that attacked Malala on the 9th October 2012.
At age eleven, Malala became an activist for women's education, self-determination and freedom at Pakistan's Swat Valley.
In an interview with the U.S Public Service, she acknowledged the gift of second life; further stressing that she had been given a second life for the cause of education.

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