Malala Yousafzai

Quick Facts

Full Name	Malala Yousafzai
Occupation	Civil Rights Leader
Date Of Birth	Jul 12, 1997(1997-07-12)
Age	27
Birthplace	Mingora
Country	Pakistan
Birth City	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Horoscope	Cancer

Malala Yousafzai Biography

Malala Yousafzai is one of the most popular and richest Civil Rights Leader who was born on July 12, 1997 in Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. For her support of female education in Pakistan, she was the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner in history. Her Nobel Peace Prize money was used to rebuild 65 schools in Gaza.

In recognition of her bravery, the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon designated November 10th as Malala Day.

Malala Yousafzai (Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی ‎; Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ ‎ [məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj] ; born 12 July 1997), also known mononymously as Malala, is a Pakistani Pashtun activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become “the most prominent citizen” of the country.

In late 2008, Aamer Ahmed Khan of the BBC Urdu website and his colleagues came up with a novel way of covering the Taliban’s growing influence in Swat. They decided to ask a schoolgirl to blog anonymously about her life there. Their correspondent in Peshawar, Abdul Hai Kakar, had been in touch with a local school teacher, Ziauddin Yousafzai, but could not find any students willing to do so, as it was considered too dangerous by their families. Finally, Yousafzai suggested his own daughter, 11-year-old Malala. At the time, Taliban militants led by Maulana Fazlullah were taking over the Swat Valley, banning television, music, girls’ education, and women from going shopping. Bodies of beheaded policemen were being displayed in town squares. At first, a girl named Aisha from her father’s school agreed to write a diary, but then the girl’s parents stopped her from doing it because they feared Taliban reprisals. The only alternative was Yousafzai, four years younger than the original volunteer, and in seventh grade at the time. Editors at the BBC unanimously agreed.

Her father Her father Ziauddin Yousafzai was also threatened with death for her actions. was also threatened to die for her actions.

Malala Yousafzai Net Worth

Malala Yousafzai is one of the richest Civil Rights Leader from Pakistan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Malala Yousafzai 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was living in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, which is a hotbed for Taliban activity. So she started writing a blog about her experiences, and her thoughts on being banned from going to school.

She became more vocal in her views by October 2012; she was seriously injured in an unsuccessful Taliban assassination attempt. On the day she graduated high school, she sent her first tweet from her @Malala Twitter account.

Yousafzai was born on 12 July 1997 in the Swat District of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, into a lower-middle-class family. She is the daughter of Ziauddin Yousafzai and Tor Pekai Yousafzai. Her family is Sunni Muslim of Pashtun ethnicity, belonging to the Yusufzai tribe. The family did not have enough money for a hospital birth and as a result, Yousafzai was born at home with the help of neighbours. She was given her first name Malala (meaning “grief-stricken”) after Malalai of Maiwand, a famous Pashtun poet and warrior woman from southern Afghanistan. At her house in Mingora, she lived with her two younger brothers, Khushal and Atal, her parents, Ziauddin and Tor Pekai, and two pet chicken.

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In February 2009, girls’ schools were still closed. In solidarity, private schools for boys had decided not to open until 9 February, and notices appeared saying so. On 7 February, Yousafzai and her brother returned to their hometown of Mingora, where the streets were deserted, and there was an “eerie silence”. “We went to the supermarket to buy a gift for our mother but it was closed, whereas earlier it used to remain open till late. Many other shops were also closed”, she wrote in her blog. Their home had been robbed and their television was stolen.

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In Mingora, the Taliban had set an edict that no girls could attend school after 15 January 2009. The group had already blown up more than a hundred girls’ schools. The night before the ban took effect was filled with the noise of artillery fire, waking Yousafzai several times. The following day, Yousafzai also read for the first time excerpts from her blog that had been published in a local newspaper.

Who is Malala Yousafzai and why is she famous?

Malala Yousafzai, (born July 12, 1997, Mingora, Swat valley, Pakistan), Pakistani activist who, while a teenager, spoke out publicly against the prohibition on the education of girls that was imposed by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP; sometimes called Pakistani Taliban).

How old was Malala when she got shot?

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai recounted her ordeal of the “Taliban’s damage” that was caused to her body in a telling blog post published on Podium on August 24. The 24-year-old was shot in the head by Ehsanullah Ehsan, the former Pakistan Taliban spokesman, in 2012 for her campaign to educate girls.

Why did Malala get assassinated?

In 2012, Malala was shot in the head by Taliban terrorists in Pakistan for her campaign for the education of girls.

Is Malala Yousafzai married to her dad?

Malala Yousafzai
Spouse(s)| Asser Malik ​ ( m. 2021)​
Parents| Ziauddin Yousafzai (father) Toor Pekai Yousafzai (mother)
Honours| Nobel Peace Prize (2014)

Who did Malala marry?

Asser Malik