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ISLAMABAD: Malala Yousafzai, who won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, is hailed around the world as a champion of women's rights who stood up bravely against the Taliban to defend her beliefs.

But in her deeply conservative homeland, many view her with suspicion as an outcast or even as a Western creation aimed at damaging Pakistan's image abroad.

Malala, now aged 17, became globally known in 2012 when Taliban gunmen almost killed her for her passionate advocacy of women's right to education.
She has since become a symbol of defiance in the fight against militants operating in Pashtun tribal areas in northwest Pakistan — a region where women are expected to keep their opinions to themselves and stay at home.

"The terrorists thought that they would change our aims and stop our ambitions but nothing changed in my life except this: Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born," she told the United Nations last year.


Malala Yousafzai, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
"I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there is a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me. I would not shoot him," she said in a speech which captivated the world.

Malala has also won the European Union's human rights award and was one of the favourites to win the Nobel Prize last year.

Now based in Britain, she is unable to return to her homeland because of Taliban threats to kill her and her family members. The current Taliban chief, Mullah Fazlullah, was the one who ordered the 2012 attack against her.

Yousafzai has enrolled in a school in Birmingham and become a global campaigner for women's right to education and other human rights issues, taking up issues such as the situation in Syria and Nigieria.

In her native Swat valley, however, many people view Malala,

backed by a supportive family and a doting father who inspired her to keep up with her campaign, with a mixture of suspicion, fear and jealousy.

At the time of her Nobel nomination last year, social media sites were brimming with insulting messages. "We hate Malala Yousafzai, a CIA agent," said one Facebook page.

She was a young student in the Swati town of Mingora in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province when she became interested in women's rights.

At the time, the Taliban were in power in the strategic valley after they took control over the region and imposed strict Islamic rules, including their opposition to women's education.

She wrote an anonymous blog describing her life under the Taliban controlled the region. In October 2012, after the Taliban were pushed out of Swat by the Pakistani army, she was shot in the head on her way to school by a Taliban gunman.

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El Comité Noruego del Nobel concedió a Malala Yousafzai este reconocimiento por su activismo a favor de los derechos de los niños. Aquí te contamos su historia.
"Los extremistas tienen temor de libros y plumas; tienen temor de las mujeres. Vamos a levantar nuestros libros y plumas: Son nuestras armas más poderosas", pronunció Malala el 12 de julio de 2013 en la Asamblea de la Juventud de las Naciones Unidas, casi un año después de haber recibido un disparo en la cabeza por parte de un Talibán.

A los 10 años, Malala Yousafzai, originaria de Paquistán, leía la saga de "Twilight" con su mejor amiga Moniba y deseaban ser vampiras, su clase favorita era la de química y soñaba con ser médico. Pero al mismo tiempo escribía un blog para el Servicio Urdu de la BBC, firmaba con un seudónimo y en el primer post se leía: "En mi camino a casa desde la escuela escuché a un hombre gritando: ¡Te mataré! Apresuré el paso... pero para mi gran alivio vi que estaba hablando por su móvil y que debía de estar amenazando a otra persona". Para entonces los Talibanes ya habían llegado al Valle Swat, donde ella vivía.


Malala
Malala apareció en la revista Time como una de 100 personalidades más influyentes del mundo. (Foto: Especial)
Para cuando Malala tenía 13 años era fan de la serie "Ugly Betty", la veía en DVD. En el libro "Yo soy Malala" afirma sobre la producción de Salma Hayek que Betty: "era una chica con una ortodoncia enorme y un corazón también enorme. Me encantó y soñaba con la posibilidad de ir algún día a Nueva York y trabajar en una revista como ella".

Y aunque añoraba esos estereotipos, como cualquier niña de su edad, también estaba más que conciente de la realidad, así lo dijo para el diario El País en 2013: "Me gustaba ver la serie, me gustaba pensar en otro mundo en donde el mayor problema era la moda, quien viste qué ropa, qué sandalias, qué color de lápiz de labios usa tal chica... Mientras por otro lado las mujeres se mueren de hambre y los niños también y azotan a las mujeres y aparecen cuerpos decapitados...".

Como muchas adolescentes, Malala gusta de ver a los jugadores de cricket, en especial de Shahid Afridi: "siempre sale eliminado sin anotar, pero sin embargo todos lo queremos mucho", dijo para El País y agregó: "Está también Roger Federer. Hay muchos (que le gustan), ¡pero eso no significa que me case con ellos!". Y sobre contraer matrimonio, ella respondió con un "Tal vez"


OTRA REALIDAD, SU REALIDAD

Su vida no era como la de otras niñas de su edad, en el valle donde vivía había masacres, así lo contó en entrevista para El País: "Los talibanes se levantaron y empezó el terrorismo, azotaron a las mujeres, asesinaron a las personas, los cuerpos aparecían decapitados en las plazas de Míngora, nuestra ciudad. Destruyeron muchas escuelas, destruyeron las peluquerías, quemaron los televisores, prohibieron que las niñas fueran a la escuela", y sólo algunos se oponían ante los hechos, entre ellos el padre de Malala, Ziauddin Yousafzai, maestro de profesión.




























































     
 
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