(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Calling her an agent of disbelievers a message posted in Twitter stated that the Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize recipient did not represent Islam.
While recipient of Nobel Peace Prize Malala Yousaf Zai continued to be showered profuse praise for the singular honour nationwide as also across the world an offshoot of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taleban Pakistan (TTP) has assailed the decision.
Calling her an agent of ‘Kuffar’ (disbelievers) in an English message posted on the Twitter account of the outlawed Jamaatul Ahrar spokesman Ehsanullah EHsan the chief of its Ihyay-e-Khilafat (Revival of caliphate) media division Saleh Qassam and media member Ibrahim Khorasani commented together on Malala stating she did not represent Islam. Ehsanullah threatened that fighters would continue to strike people who took anti-Islam positions.
In her hometown Mingora (Swat) the school teachers and students celebrated the announcement by cutting cake and distributing sweets.
The print media in editorial comments lauded the occasion as one piece of heartening news amid an otherwise gloomy atmosphere prevailing in the country.
Daily Dawn’s editorial captioned ‘Pakistan’s Braveheart’) said Malala Yousafzai is a special case; it’s hard to find such courage in a 17-year-old coupled with a clarity of thought and an eloquence that can make cynics catch their breath and the world sit up and take notice.
“Yesterday Pakistan’s braveheart won the Nobel Peace Prize giving a nation starved of glad tidings and buffeted by crises on multiple fronts a reason to celebrate. By awarding the prize to an education rights activist the Nobel Committee has delivered a symbolic rebuke to the forces of regression typified by the likes of the Taleban Boko Haram and the ISIS that seek to impose a system in which aside from a slew of other depredations children — particularly girls — would be denied the right to education.
The Nation editorial said: “Malala is an international hero and a symbol of both the good and evil that resides in this state of Pakistan. In her story lies the extraordinary spirit of the youth of this country as well as the overwhelming paranoia silence and barbarism that has come to define”.
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