The National Youth Assembly (NYA) has appealed the government to nominate Malala Yousufzai for the 'Nobel Peace Prize'. "As an international symbol of freedom, peace and education, she deserves the most for this prestigious award," said NYA President Hanan Ali Abbasi while talking to Agency here on Monday.
"Malala, also a member of the NYA, is the most precious asset of the NYA and "we have launched a global campaign on social media for her justifiable projection and right," informed Hanan. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, in a statement and a message to the world said, "Malala is a role model not only for your country, but for our world," adding that education was a fundamental right for everybody.
Hanan said, "She fulfils the criteria of the Nobel Peace Prize for her leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community. She is now considered as a lifelong ardent worker and symbol for international peace around the world. Her brave and sacrificial act should be recognised and honoured."
The Peace Prize is one of five prizes that have been awarded annually since 1901 under the auspices of the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm for outstanding contributions in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace.
He expressed, "Malala stands for education, progress and the advancement of all children of all ages. She stands for ideals that value girls and women and their equal place in human society. And though seriously wounded, she still stands for those ideals today." Responding to a question he said, "A cowardly attack on Malala, in no way, is justifiable by any humane progressive society, especially on women and child." The President NYA said, "Personally we are outraged at this brutal attack on a young girl of extremely high potential that demonstrated the best of human nature through her words and her actions.
An attack on her is an attack on the values of freedom, safety, growth and enlightenment that people of all nations hold dear, whether they are allowed to freely exercise them or not." Malala should be nominated for Nobel peace prize, Hanan recommended, as she stood for the emancipation of women and equality a universal charter of human rights. Hanan Ali Abbasi has appealed the nation to pray for the health of all the girls who suffered injuries during that attack.