Nobel Laureate Malala Yousufzai is an important person for the world, but not for own country Pakistan. Authorities in Pakistan's Punjab have confiscated copies of a school textbook for printing the picture of Malala in the list of important personalities. Reason: they are apparently unhappy with her controversial views on Islam.
Pakistan’s private schools' association on Monday had launched a documentary on Malala for her controversial views on Islam, marriage and her pursuit of the Western agenda.
On the same day, the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board confiscated the social studies book for grade 7 published by the Oxford University Press for printing the picture of Malala in the list of important personalities, the Dawn newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Addressing a press conference at his office in Gulberg in Lahore on Monday, the All-Pakistan Private Schools Federation president Kashif Mirza had said: “Through this documentary film -- I am not Malala - we will tell 20 million students in 200,000 private schools across the country about her controversial views on Islam, marriage, pursuing of Western agenda." “The idea behind this is we want to expose Malala among the youth as it does not get impressed by her so-called story of struggle for women's rights,” he said.
The report said the books were already circulated in various educational institutes and the police and other agencies were conducting raids on shops to confiscate copies of the book.
The youngest Nobel Prize laureate, who turned 24 on Monday, is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.