We Pashtuns are split between Pakistan and Afghanistan and don’t really recognize the border that the British drew more than 100 years ago.
When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.
Education is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism.
In Islam, it is not just your right, but your responsibility to get education.
I am stronger than fear.
My goal is to get peace and my goal is to see education of every child.
We liked to be known as the clever girls. When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew calculus and chemical formulae instead of flowers and butterflies.
She explained that the bullet had entered through the side of my left eye where there was a scar, traveled eighteen inches down to my left shoulder and stopped there. It could have taken out my eye or gone into my brain. It was a miracle I was alive.
I would tell him that shoot me but first listen to me. And I would tell him that education is my right and education is the right of your daughter and son a well. And I’m speaking up for them. I’m speaking up for peace.
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When I look at my goal, my goal is peace.
I am convinced Socialism is the only answer.
In the future, women, rather than men, will be the ones to change the world.
We call upon all communities to be tolerant, to reject prejudice based on caste, creed, sect, color, religion or agenda to ensure freedom and equality for women so they can flourish. We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.
When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is.
There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
So today, we call upon the world leaders to change their strategic policies in favor of peace and prosperity. We call upon the world leaders that all of these deals must protect women and children’s rights. A deal that goes against the rights of women is unacceptable.
Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.
Pakistan is a peace loving, democratic country. Pashtuns want education for their daughters and sons. Islam is a religion of peace, humanity and brotherhood.
I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.