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Pakistan

On Malala Day, Pakistani Girls chant “I am Malala”

Juan Cole 11/11/2012

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Pakistan, and people around the world, commemorated yesterday as “Malala Day”, in honor of Malala Yusufzai, who was shot in the head by a Taliban militant for demanding the right of girls’ education. UN special envoy Gordon Brown submitted a petition to Pakistani President Asaf Ali Zardari with nearly a million signatures from around the world urging free, universal, compulsory education.

There were rallies all over the country, including Karachi and Lahore. Reuters has a video report, and the clip of the girls chanting “I am Malala” is poignant.

Aljazeera English reports on a Pakistani girls’ school that is giving hope:

The Pakistani government announced that the country’s 3 million poorest families will receive government payments if they send their children to school. Many rural Pakistanis live on less than two dollars a day, and those families use their children as farm labor; the government is trying to replace the income lost if the child goes to school instead.

Another international petition is asking that Malala be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Filed Under: Pakistan, Pakistan Taliban

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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