On Sunday, Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai advised Muslim leaders not to “legitimize” Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders.
Yousafzai made the remarks at a top on women’ education and learning in Muslim nations in Islamabad, Pakistan, arranged by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Muslim World League.
Yousafzai: Reject Taliban ‘sex discrimination’
Yousafzai stated the Taliban had actually executed greater than 100 regulations that breached females’s civil liberties, which she knocked as “gender apartheid.”
“There’s nothing Islamic about this,” Yousafzai stated.
“In Afghanistan an entire generation of girls will be robbed of its future,” she stated.
“As Muslim leaders,” she stated, “now is the time to raise your voice, use your power.”
Since taking power in August 2021, the Taliban have actually enforced constraints that properly get rid of females from public life.
Yousafzai, that comes from the city of Mingora in the Swat valley in Pakistan’s Pashtun- controlled northwest, made it through a gunshot injury to the head from a Pakistan Taliban militant in 2012 while on a college bus. She was moved to the United Kingdom for clinical therapy and afterwards sought education and learning in the nation.
On Saturday, Yousafzai shared her joy to be seeing her home nation, stating: “Pakistan is where I began my journey and where my heart will always be.”
She stated greater than 12 million Pakistani women ran out institution.
In December, the Taliban struck targets inside Pakistan after Pakistani airstrikes supposedly eliminated lots.
Islamabad has actually required that the team rehabilitate right into the Tehrik- e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant team in charge of several strikes in Pakistan.
Yousafzai condemns Israeli offensive in Gaza
Yousafzai additionally slammed Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip, indicating the altruistic disaster in the Palestinian region.
“In Gaza, Israel has decimated the entire education system,” she stated.
“They have bombed all universities, destroyed more than 90% of schools, and indiscriminately attacked civilians sheltering in school buildings,” she stated.
In September 2024, the UN’s youngsters’s company, UNICEF, stated 45,000 first-graders in Gaza were not able to begin their education and learning and 625,000 young people were being robbed of education momentarily year.
Israel has actually consistently stated Hamas and various other militant teams were utilizing noncombatant centers such as colleges and health centers in Gaza for armed forces objectives.
Yousafzai came to be the youngest Nobel laureate at age 17 for her marketing for the right of youngsters to obtain an education and learning.
sdi/lo (AFP, dpa, Reuters)