Women’s Freedom Award: French honour Malala Yousafzai

PARIS: The Taliban must accept peace talks as their mission has failed, the father of Malala Yousafzai said on Wednesday while accepting a key French award for the Pakistani schoolgirl shot for campaigning for girls’ education. In an impassioned speech after accepting the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Womens’ Freedom on behalf of the 15-year-old, Ziauddin Yousafzai said his daughter was supported by the world and by God. Yousafzai said the Taliban should now see the writing on the wall and “learn from this incident”. The prize is endowed with €20,000.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 10^th, 2013.