Malala Yousafzai took centre stage at United Nations General Assembly to highlight need for girls’ education. Youngest Nobel Prize Laureate took to Instagram and shared her speech as well. 

She also met several activists including Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra. UNICEF Ambassador, who also gave an address at event, shared some pictures with Malala on her Instagram feed.  However, not everyone was impressed by 24-year-old’s incredible feat. TV host Mathira took to Instagram and shared few thoughts about Malala. 

“Malala only gets paid to take pictures with international artists and talks about Pakistan when she does not even live in Pakistan,” she wrote on her Instagram story while sharing a picture of Malala and Priyanka. “She didn’t even manage to visit Pakistan when half of Pakistan was drowning and then talks about struggle in these fancy meets and greet.”

She concluded her stance with, “Weird stuff, this girl is such a hypocrite.” However, on other hand, singer Momina Mustehsan who attended event took to social media and shared a picture with Malala after latter’s speech. “Girl with a heart of gold,” Afreen Afreen singer captioned photo.  Highlighting her speech at UNGA, Malala took to Instagram and shared “Seven years ago I stood on this platform hoping that voice of a teenage girl who took a bullet for standing up for her education would be heard.”

“On that day, leaders, corporations, civil society all of us committed to working together to see every child in school by 2030. Yet halfway to that target date, we are facing an education emergency.” Malala concluded with, “I hope, in another seven years, we will speak to you again. But instead of urging you to help us, we’ll be cheering and celebrating progress you’ve made for girls.”

Published in The Daily National Courier, September, 22 2022

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