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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

[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]

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