Malala Yousafzai speaks after receiving her award during the Glamour Magazine Women of the Year event in New York, November 11, 2013. PHOTO: REUTERS
Teenage activist Malala Yousufzai was named a 2013 Glamour Woman of the Year, the magazine’s website reported.
Malala was shot by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) gunmen last year for promoting girls’ education. She now lives in the UK after she was flown there for medical treatment.
With this announcement, the magazine will kick off a yearlong campaign to raise support for the Malala Fund, which helps programs that directly impact the quality and accessibility of education for girls.
Malala is one of the 12 trailblazers, entertainers, influencers, and game changers who – according to Glamour magazine - shaped the year 2013.
This is not the first time Glamour has honoured a Pakistani woman. Rape survivor and international icon Mukhtara Mai was named Woman of the Year in 2005, while Academy Award-winning film-maker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and acid burn survivor Zakia jointly received the award in 2012.
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This year, Malala was also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, however she did not win it. The news came as a shock for most people as no one had anticipated the Organisation for Prevention of Chemical Weapons would be honoured – the little-known organisation was not even named in the top possible winners.
Malala first rose to prominence with a blog for the BBC Urdu service chronicling the difficulties of life under the rule of the Taliban, who controlled Swat from 2007 until they were kicked out by the army in 2009.
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Keep On Partying Malala!! This Pakistan is yours.. and come to Karachi soon, i will invite you at mt Party as well..
Congratulations Malala! She continues to make her country proud. She is truly an inspiration to the girls around the world. Wish her best of luck in all of her future endeavors.
Ali Khan
In our small minds glamour is being synonmous with nudity, obscenity, sexuality etc whereas a dictionary meaning of glamour is 'an attractive or exciting quality that makes certain people or things seem appealing' which is better than reality.
Some days past some one posted in FB that she was writing a diary with a fictitious name " "Gul Makaee" since her birth. ????? I think it is possible in this world where puppets are raised to top positions before birth like previous planted touts; Muhammad Ali Bogra 17 April 1953 to 12 August 1955; Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi 18 July 1993 to 19 October 1993; Shaukat Aziz 16 November 2007 to10 October 2002; .. and next coming ... Honourable Malala The Glamorous Lady of the year 2013; and A to Z Honourary Awards holder of the the year she was taken as shot( may be) to-date.
... the writer of "Diary of Gul Makayee" the Best Seller of the 3rd Millennium ; ending this year.
I have nothing against a 14 year old child but I think she is going too many places too fast. Its obvious that some 'secret' power is behind her . I would rather that she focuses on her own studies than giving interviews or campaigning for some or the other cause. IT all looks like too much too soon.
The cyber-Taliban get another heart-burn.The impotent men are again at it showing their cowardice.Just because a girl fought the evil that these cowards should have been fighting. But they have for their icons Masud and fazullah ilk,the killers of Pakistanis.
A step closer to Oscars
She is a pathan. Pathan girls tend to be beautiful.Was her category related to the teenagers?
The award is a big honour for Malaka. Let the opponents say whatever they like and are please with.
I think Malala is crossing the line here by appearing in Glamour Awards - What is she seeking - I thought she was struggling for education rights for poor girls worldwide**
GLAMOUR?? Did I heard right? Glamour and Malala are as closely related as India and peace.
A real western agent. They really reward their agents, dont they?
Masha'Allah, please give her the titles of Miss Universe, Miss World and so forth as well...
is shabby dressing and lack of personal grooming worthy of being called glamorous?
Where iz the Glamour...????
@Sophya Khan blog was 'Anonymous' because it was written by 'Gul Makai'
lets not try to be smarter than what we actually are!!
now this is the most apt title... Glamour..yes that is what it is... and in 2008 she held press conference in peshawar then how was she anonymous in 2009? are you sure ET? and since when going to school became fighting for women's education rights? as all the world media including ET had reported that Malala was shot when she was returning from school and not some women rights campaign.. and by the way, the school belonged to her father which is for-profit till date :)