Do u know about this malala yousuf jay 12 July 1997(age 17) Mingora, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan Residence Birmingham, England Nationality Pakistani Ethnicity Pashtun Occupation Bloggerand activist for rights to educationand for women Known for Female education activism Religion Islam Relatives *.Toorpekai Yousafzai (mother) *. Ziauddin Yousafzai(father) Awards *. Nobel Peace Prize *. Sakharov Prize *. Simone de Beauvoir Prize *. Honorary Canadian citizenship *. National Youth Peace Prize *.( others) Malala Yousafzai( Urdu:Malālah Yūsafzay, Pashto: ]məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj[; ] 1 [born 12 July 1997( ] 2 [ ] 3 [is a Pakistani activistfor female educationand the youngest-ever Nobel Prizerecipient. ] 4 [She is known mainly for human rightsadvocacy for educationand for womenin her native Swat Valleyin the Khyber Pakhtunkhwaprovince of northwest Pakistan, where the local Talibanhad at times banned girls from attending school. Yousafzais advocacy has since grown into an international movement. Her family runs a chain of schools in the region. In early 2009, when she was 11–12, Yousafzai wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBCdetailing her life under Taliban occupation, their attempts to take control of the valley, and her views on promoting education for girls in the Swat Valley. The following summer, journalist Adam B. Ellickmade a New York Timesdocumentary ] 3 [about her life as the Pakistani military intervened in the region, culminating in the Second Battle of Swat. Yousafzai rose in prominence, giving interviews in print and on television, and she was nominated for the International Childrens Peace Prizeby South African activist Desmond Tutu. On the afternoon of 9 October 2012, Yousafzai boarded her school bus in the northwest Pakistani district of Swat. A gunman asked for her by name, then pointed a pistol at her and fired three shots. One bullet hit the left side of Yousafzais forehead, travelled under her skin through the length of her face, and then went into her shoulder. ] 5 [In the days immediately following the attack, she remained unconscious and in critical condition, but later her condition improved enough for her to be sent to the Queen Elizabeth Hospitalin Birmingham, England, for intensive rehabilitation. On 12 October, a group of 50 Islamic clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwāagainst those who tried to kill her, but the Taliban reiterated their intent to kill Yousafzai and her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai. Some Pakistanis believe the shooting was a CIAsetup and many conspiracy theories
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