Know Malala Yousafzai - World's youngest ever Nobel laureate

Exactly two years and a day after Taliban gunmen shot her in the head for daring to speak up for the rights of a girl to get an education, Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan was awarded the Nobel Peace prize Friday. She shares the award with veteran children's rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi, 60, from neighboring India.Malala Yousufzai, the 17-year-old Pakistani girl child education campaigner was shot nearly-fatally in 2012 by a Taliban gunman. She is the youngest person ever to win a Nobel Prize.Also Read: Know Kailash Satyarthi- First India-born person to win Nobel Peace prizeBefore Malala, Australia-born British citizen William Lawrence Bragg was the youngest Nobel laureate when he won the physics Nobel in 1915 at the age of 25.[Raises hands with some of the escaped kidnapped school girls of government secondary school during a news conference in Abuja, Nigeria on July 14, 2014]Malala won for what the Nobel Committee called her "heroic struggle" for girls' right to education. She is the youngest ever winner of the prize, the paper said.Malala and India's Satyarthi were named the joint winners of the eight-million kronor ($1.1 million) prize by the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee - Norway's former prime minister Thorbjoern Jagland.[Malala poses for pictures before an event launching her book, “I Am Malala” in London on October 20 , 2013][Malala Yousafzai walks alongside Syrian refugee Mazoon Rakanafter attending a press conference at the Zaatari refugee camp near the Jordanain border with Syria]Malala was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman two years ago when she was on her way to school in a bus.A critically injured Malala was airlifted, at the Pakistan government expense, to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, where she was treated for life-threatening injuries and pulled back from the brink.[Queen Elizabeth II and Prine Phillip meet the brave hearted Malala during a reception for Youth Education and the Commonwealth at Buckingham Palace in London in 2013][Malala attends an Award ceremony to receive 2013 Sakharov Prize in France in November 2013]Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif congratulated Pakistani girl child education campaigner Malala Yousufzai on winning the Nobel Peace Prize."She is pride of Pakistan. She has made her countrymen proud. Her achievement is unparalleled and unequalled. Girls and boys of the world should take the lead from her struggle and commitment," Sharif said in a statement.[Malala meets US President Barack Obama and his wife Michele and daughter in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in October 11, 2013.][Malala raises a trophy after being honored with the International Children's Peace Prize in Netherlands in September 2013.]"It is an honour for Malala Yousufzai, her family and Pakistan," Pakistan's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said during a press conference.Former President Asif Ali Zardari congratulated Malala and her family over the Nobel prize."Daughter of Pakistan. Ambassador of Peace, Malala Yousufzai, we are proud of you. Our national heroine has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Long Live Pakistan," Zardari tweeted. ⎜ years old Malala speaks before the United Nations Youth Assembly (UNYA) in New York on July 12, 2013] [Malala made it to the cover of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2013]Twitter and Facebook are full of messages of congratulations to Malala.Talking about Malala, Nobel Committee's statement said "Despite her youth, Malala has already fought for several years for the right of girls to education, and has shown by example that children and young people, too, can contribute to improving their own situations.This she has done under the most dangerous circumstances. Through her heroic struggle she has become a leading spokesperson for girls' right to education".[Malala in bed with her father and younger brothers on October 26, 2012 in Birmingham, UK. She for being treated there for the injuries she had sustained after the Taliban attacked her few weeks earlier]