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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai gets married: Wishes pour in from across the globe!

By alagu, 10 November, 2021
Malala Yousafzai, United Kingdom, Pakistan

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and renowned human rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai has got married on November 9 in an intimate ceremony that was held in the United Kingdom. The 24-year-old Pakistan-born activist, who is the youngest person to win the peace prize, has announced her wedding on social media which apparently had shown only her close relatives were invited to the ceremony.  

Sharing the visuals of her wedding on social media, Yousafzai wrote, "Today marks a precious day in my life. Asser and I tied the knot to be partners for life. We celebrated a small nikkah ceremony at home in Birmingham with our families." "Please send us your prayers. We are excited to walk together for the journey ahead", she added. The couple has now been flooded with the wishes that pour in from across the globe. 

Malala Yousafzai is well known for activism and campaign against the Taliban group for curbing girls from attending school in Pakistan. She was a student in a Pakistani school when she carried out her activism against the insurgents for which she was shot in her head in 2012. After suffering severe injury, she found refuge in Birmingham in the UK and went on to graduate from Oxford University with a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics amid strengthening her activism from Pakistan to the rest of the world.

Malala has been vocal about women and educational rights and shared to the globe how girls in the regions of terrorists are in the plight. She was 15 when she was shot by the Taliban in October 2012 and in 2014, she was conferred with the Nobel Peace Prize when she was 17. Her address at the United Nations Youth Assembly in 2019 had turned heads and it has become a strong epitome that the young activism is powerfully widening across the globe in all areas including fighting against discrimination, racism, terrorism, and climate change. 

She has been living in the UK and has broadened her voice and campaign for education for girls. Recently, her comments on marriage had sparked controversy. In an interview with Vogue magazine this June, she said she is not sure if she will ever marry. She said, "I still don't understand why people have to get married. If you want to have a person in your life, why do you have to sign marriage papers, why can't it just be a partnership?". 

According to reports, Malala's husband Asser Malik is the General Manager of Pakistan Cricket Board's High-Performance Centre. He had graduated from Pakistan's Lahore University of Management Sciences in 2012. As Malala shared the news of her wedding, wishes have been queued up on social media. Young climate activist Greta Thunberg and actresses Priyanka Chopra and Katrina Kaif had expressed their wishes so were several stars from Pakistan. 

 

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