[DAWN] An association of Pak schools held an "I am not Malala" day on Monday, condemning young Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She started blogging at age 11-12. She was 15 when a Talib boarded her school bus and shot her in the head in 2012. She was evacuated to a hospital in Britain and the Pak Taliban vowed to kill her and her father. Among other awards, she received the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, which she deserved more than Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Yasser Arafat, or Rigoberta Menchu...
for what it called her support for controversial novelist Salman Rushdie.
Education campaigner Malala was shot in the head by the Taliban in October 2012 but recovered and went on to win this year's Nobel peace prize.
The 17-year-old has been hailed around the world for standing up for girls' rights to education, but the response to her in Pakistain has not been universally positive, with some seeing her as a "Western agent" on a mission to shame her country.
The All Pakistain Private Schools Federation last year barred its members from buying Malala's memoir "I am Malala" because of what the group said was its "anti-Pakistain and anti-Islam content."