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Malala gets straight 'A's in O'Level exams, makes Pakistan proud once again

Nobel laureate's father tweets her result, showing she scored six A*s and 4As

Web Desk August 21, 2015

PHOTO: AFP

Child activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousufzai made the country proud once again as she cleared her O'Level examinations with flying colours.

The Nobel laureate's father tweeted her result, showing she scored six A*s and four As in her O-level examinations.

The 18-year-old secured A*s in Maths GCSE, Maths IGSE, Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Religious Studies. While she scored As in History, Geography, English Language and English Literature.

Read: Ellen DeGeneres confirms Malala as a guest on her show

Proud of his daughter's achievement, Malala’s father, Ziauddin Yousufzai tweeted, “My wife Toor Pekai and I are proud of Malala getting 6A*s and 4As. #education for every child."

My wife Toor Pekai and I are proud of Malala getting 6A*s and 4As. #education for every child. pic.twitter.com/lfoKBLMGYz
— Ziauddin Yousafzai (@ZiauddinY) August 21, 2015

Nothing that Malala Yousafzai achieves seems startling anymore but she continues to make Pakistan proud. The youngest-ever Nobel laureate has also been a part of George Washington University’s Leadership Programme and appeared in Jon Stewart's show.

Read: PM Nawaz meets Malala in Oslo

Malala also made it to Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential List twice.

Malala was 15 when a Taliban gunman shot her in the head as she travelled on a school bus in response to her campaign for girls’ education. Last year she received the Nobel Peace Prize alongside India’s Kailash Satyarthi for risking their lives to fight for children’s rights.

COMMENTS (44)

Ali | 9 years ago | Reply I'm sure in reality she must be pretty ,but when she's out for the show she takes out the most cheapest and ugliest cloths to show he most horrible image of Pakistan.and again where is her gun shot mark,please any one tell me.

weirdity | 9 years ago | Reply @excalibur: You intentionally forget to consider that she got shot in the head and couldn't go to school for a while. Sounds deceitful on your part.

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A Peshawary | 9 years ago | Reply @Faheem: No doubt; she the best in the world and deserves all the praise and admiration for what ever she has achieved during here life: She is well recognized and rewarded for whatever she has done for humanity. She is the one who can and will perform many more miracles in the time to come. In-spite of all these facts; is she a Pakistani to make you proud as a Pakistani? Perhaps she is a Pushtoon but no more part of your nations. A Peshawary

Babbarsher Khan | 9 years ago | Reply "CIA ki sazeesh, Pakistan ko humiliate karne ke liye!" I was expecting something like this from our always visible "religious/patriotic brigade". Surprisingly they have gone silent. Well done Malala; we are proud of you, keep it up!

bigsaf | 9 years ago | Reply @excalibur: When the Taliban took over Swat, she indeed couldn't go to school and wrote those BBC diaries in secret during that time. That's not fabrication. She criticized the army, your sacred cows, and police forces for letting the religious fanatics takeover freaking Swat of all places, in the first place, and taking so long to retake it (with time wasting peace deals in between), which happened. That's not maligning but fact of failure. Nothing happened to her courage. She was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman and had to go to UK for treatment. The Taliban threatened to finish the job and murder her and her family and you want them to return to get killed? That's how it sounds like, knowing full well there are still killings by religous extremists or are you in denial? Apparently this is all lost on your right-wing nationalist ideologue views as all you can see is her being patronized by the West, which probably is true since bitter Easterners like yourself, who can't accept criticism or how bad things were, have forsaken her for speaking truth.

Ali | 9 years ago | Reply All malala lovers please tell me where is her gunshot Mark and why can't this girl ever speak any thing good about the country..if she was real no western country would have ever appreciated her.all fake drama queen

Ali | 9 years ago | Reply Not be negative or being a hater,but the whole malala topic seems too fake to me.i think everyone has freedom of speech and just being honest I think it's western agenda to give her like light in order to get her into Pakistan politics .malala was shot in the head in 2012 and I don't see any gunshot mark on her head.can anyone please tell me where is the gunshot mark on her head.she is 100 percent and I wouldn't be surprised if she get 10 as in a levels and tops in Cambridge ,later win an Oscar in Hollywood ,or maybe comes up with a rocket science formula in future

ghayyas | 9 years ago | Reply Very good result but I have two questions: She is 18. What is the average age of a 'O' level exam student. Being a Pakistani, why didn't she take 'Urdu' as a subject in the exam.

excalibur | 9 years ago | Reply @ Rollin & Tollin .Ram n Sita You deserve no further comment as you cannot take off your blinders, refrain from personal jibes and see it from a Pakistani perspective @ Chris Cork we all know about the UK system which has a lower age threshold at each stage of schooling not a higher one Hence for an 18 year old Malala to compete with 14/15 year olds and get such a result is no big deal. Also O & A Levels are exams that ' nobody fails ' ( dumbed down as the Education Ministry Report said earlier ) and now Geneva based IB ( International Baccalaureate) is the new and preferred standard

ivehadit | 9 years ago | Reply Can we stop putting her under a microscope please. Let her live her life. She doesn't have to be the model citizen to placate our sensibilities. Good luck to her for her studies and future. She's suffered enough as it is.

Ram n Sita | 9 years ago | Reply @excalibur: you are out of your mind due to jealousy, calm down.We can understand you cannot tolerate anyone better than you. Calm down!

Chris Cork | 9 years ago | Reply Excalibur and others. You are clearly unaware of how UK education works. Yes, O levels are normally taken at 15 or thereabouts, but Malala was two years at least BEHIND in terms of chronological age when she started education in UK. She will take A level at 20 or thereabouts....not possible for her to take before that. There is no way to 'jump the system' in UK and she has to follow the same academic path as everybody else. No mystery at all...just the way it is. I suggest you bone up on the facts before making ill advised comments.

Rollin & Trollin | 9 years ago | Reply @Excalibur: I am rather amused at you seeming to cite "Yale and Harvard" as your alma mater when you can hardly string together a few words to form a coherent sentence in the English language. Your diatribe against the young lady in question appears to stem from some sort of unfathomable jealousy rather than out of rational cognition. Best you seek psychological therapy asap.

excalibur | 9 years ago | Reply @ ahsan mind your language. Date of her enrollment at school is publicly known @ wasim if you must know I did better than her at IGSCE when I was 14 beyond that perhaps you are aware of Yale and Harvard but that is only since you asked for my cedentials I am pained for Pakistan as to how she and her father are being used to maligni Paklistan as the wild west where females cannot go to school which is a lot of bull The orcestrated diaries she wrote for BBC are full of hatred for Pak Army which brought peace to Swat

ahsan | 9 years ago | Reply @excalibur: You imbecile she was in therapy for years.

Sana | 9 years ago | Reply She appeared in O'level exams or GCSC???

GS@Y | 9 years ago | Reply What a remarkable person she is. It reflects really well on her that she's able to balance her incredibly public life with working hard in school. She truly makes Pakistan proud. She should get the best education in the world, but hopefully she'll soon be able to be based back in Pakistan.

Wasim | 9 years ago | Reply @excalibur: Would you care to tell us your academic achievements, since clearly you are implying that her result is not very impressive.

Grafello | 9 years ago | Reply @excalibur: I smell something is burning.

Naeem Khan | 9 years ago | Reply @excalibur: There is no shortage of morons in this world, I see them all the time even in Kansas. Did ever occur to you that she was shot in the head and recovered from that horrific ordeal which took some years to heal and become functional. Let me ask you what have you achieved in your life time, perhaps you should tell us so we could also be proud of you. There are millions of girls her age around the world who has not achieved what she set out to achieve and we the Pukhtuns are very proud of her and her family who encouraged her to touch the stars and make her people and the nation proud. The sad part is those girls who want to break the glass ceiling are either shoved aside or be eliminated for good, Benazir Bhutto and Malala's case in point. I don't know who you are and from where but I for one is very proud of all the girls in Pakistan who has and are trying to achieve heights and make their nation proud of them, I say go girls, the world is yours and do the best for humanity. My congratulations to Malala and her parents for job well done.

excalibur | 9 years ago | Reply @ SHKT Rollin Tollin Z Sodomite Go check how many days she was under treatment . Yes she got th Nobel also from the same mindset of maligning Pakistan What happened to her courage that she decided to abandon her class fellows and her father the school he ran/ instead of returning to Swat the Visa was the deal One of the other girls injured also got a UK citizenship after petitioning the Consulate in Islamabad. Truly a Western mascot used to patronise Pakistan

Irshad Khan | 9 years ago | Reply She must be named "Dukhtar-e-Ala Pakistan".

Z | 9 years ago | Reply @excalibur: Doing GCSEs a couple of years later because her education was massively interrupted as a result of an attempt on her life is pretty understandable, I'd say...

Sodomite | 9 years ago | Reply @SHKT: @Rollin & Trollin: Good responses from both of you. Excalibur is an angry Hindu short of education.

Rollin & Trollin | 9 years ago | Reply @excalibur: Besides seconding 'SHKT' comment, could you kindly let us know at what age you were awarded your first Nobel Prize ?

SHKT | 9 years ago | Reply @excalibur: I think you would be taking O-levels at 18 as well if you were shot in the head and spent a lot of time recovering, first from the physical wounds and then from the psychological trauma.

Zif | 9 years ago | Reply She has really shown that she loves education. She is the right ambassador for it. Well done dear!

Khurshid Yusufzai | 9 years ago | Reply Congratulations dear Malala! Once you said that you wanted to become an ideal for the world and you materialzed your dream.

Parvez Iqbal | 9 years ago | Reply Malala deserves all the praise and recognition. Giving her the Nobel Prize was a Western agenda. Why do I say this? Because Google "Edhi" and read about this humblest and noblest man alive on the planet and his achievements. He makes saints look like sinners. Don't mean to take anything from the brave child Malala (ask her about Abdus Sattar Edhi!) but if this is the standard to gauge Nobel Prizes, then let's not make a big deal of it. Of course giving Nobel Prize to Obama hardly 4 months into his Presidency, proves that this has become just another racket.

rohit950723 | 9 years ago | Reply Atleast Pakistani English newspaper are hailing Malala...

Ali | 9 years ago | Reply I feel more happier on this news than her winning Nobel PIECE prize.

Ch. Allah Daad | 9 years ago | Reply Congratulations to our Princess. Very proud of her.

jay | 9 years ago | Reply why proud pakis are forced to leave pakistan because of threat for their life? same with abdus salam

Shafaq | 9 years ago | Reply Super human being of today's world.....

Remala | 9 years ago | Reply You are amazing Malala. I dont know how you manage things from a macro world class activities to a micro individual studies. You proved that nobody, let alone the Taliban can ever beat you. We love you.

excalibur | 9 years ago | Reply O level at 18 years ? must be a record since normally 14/15 years is the normal age Gulluble world gullible Pakistanis Malala should be Undergraduate years at her age

Sodomite | 9 years ago | Reply Another feather in the cap of this beautiful and talented girl of Swat. All girls in this world, particularly in Pakistan should follow in her footsteps of modern education and not into the obscurantist Madrassas.

Fidak Tariq | 9 years ago | Reply We are very proud of malala that she scored excellent in her O'levels

goggi (Lahore) | 9 years ago | Reply Hearty congratulations Malala for your exquisite performance! You are the heroine, torchbearer and Athena of the 21st women´s liberation movement!

adeel | 9 years ago | Reply way to go..!! Malala, well done. keep it up and remain focused. Pakistan need people like you.

Faheem | 9 years ago | Reply Malala is pride of our nation. Congratulations !

trekker | 9 years ago | Reply hates and lovers must all congratulate her. She is a bright student after all.

Parvez | 9 years ago | Reply Well done Malala.......and well done ' team Malala ' for making it possible.

Fahim | 9 years ago | Reply Thumbs up.

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