Former President Asif Ali Zardari has felicitated Malala Yousufzai as "the pride of Pakistan" who as the world's youngest Nobel laureate has sent a powerful political message that Pakistan is much more than what critics call 'the epicenter of international terrorism'.
"The Noble Peace Prize to Malala is a declaration that if cowardly militants can rear their ugly heads there also are the hands to put those ugly heads down", said Zardari in his message of felicitations issued here on Friday. Malala's courageous defiance of militants is an extraordinary attempt to change the society from within as against imposing a change from the outside, he said, adding 'this indeed has been the focus of the Prize when it was first instituted by Alfred Nobel'.
A nation whose children can produce Malala can never be cowed down by extremists and their perverted religious ideology, he said. Malala symbolises the defiant cry of human spirit against bigotry, fanaticism and religious extremism that will continue to echo unto eternity, Zardari said. He said that the honour bestowed on Malala by the international community is a declaration that religious bigotry can best be banished through collective action. The Noble Peace Prize to Malala will spur quest for education particularly women education in the country. And this is what we need more than anything else he added.-PR
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