The terrorism effective Malala yousafzai has returns to homeland with hopes of good education facilities for girls in the country. The readers knows that when she was attacked on 9, October 2012 no one known that later she will be rewarded with the Nobel Prize on the same month on 10 October 2014 for her services for peace and education. She is brave enough to face all the threats come back to a country which is still suffering from terrorism but she ignored all such mind-set that is against the opportunities of education specially the girls in areas like sawat and other norther areas. The Malala cause for peace and education is still alive that is why she is there in Pakistan for that she should be appreciated by the society. The cause of her arrival to homeland is to promote girls education.
According news reports Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai highlighted the global crisis of girls’ education, stressing the need for collective action to ensure that every girl has access to schooling.
“We should begin by recognizing what we are up against, a crisis that holds our economy back by hundreds of billions in lost growth, a crisis harming the health, safety and security of our people,” Malala said while speaking on the second day of “International Conference on Girls’ Education in Muslim Communities: Challenges and Opportunities” on Sunday.
The federal capital hosted the two-day conference that brought together global experts, educators to address issues surrounding girls’ education in Muslim countries.
Pakistan faces its own severe education crisis, with more than 22 million children out of school, according to government figures, one of the highest numbers in the world.
Malala stressed “if we don’t tackle this crisis, our society will not thrive as it should”.
“We will fail to live up to Islam’s fundamental values of seeking knowledge.”
This conference, she said, is an encouraging first step. “But we can only have an honest and serious conversation about girls’ educations, if we call out the worst violations of it.”
The event was snubbed by Afghanistan’s Taliban government, as Education Minister Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui told AFP that Islamabad had extended an invitation to Kabul, “but no one from the Afghan government was at the conference”.
Since returning to power in 2021, the Afghan Taliban government has imposed an austere version of religious law that the United Nations has called “gender apartheid”.
Their curbs have shut women and girls out of secondary school and university education, as well as many government jobs, and seen them sequestered out of many aspects of public life.
Muhammad Al Isa, a Saudi cleric and secretary general of the Muslim World League — which has backed the summit — said “religion is no grounds for blocking girls from school”.
Meanwhile, Pakistan is facing its own severe education crisis, with more than 22 million children out of school, according to government figures, one of the highest numbers in the world.
‘Entire generation of girls deprived of their future’
Malala said that girls in a number of Muslim countries, including Yemen and Sudan, are living under dire circumstances, facing poverty, violence and forced marriages.
“In Afghanistan, an entire generation of girls is robbed of their future. This conference will not be serving its purpose if we don’t talk about the education of Afghan girls,” she said, adding, “The Taliban-ruled country is the only one in the world where girls are completely barred from education.”
Malala was shot in the face by the proscribed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in 2012 when she was a schoolgirl, amid her campaigning for female education rights.
We hope that with the visit of Malala there will be great change in society and the parents will education their daughters on Malala’s footsteps.
