Oslo: Malala Yousafzai, Kailash Satyarthi receive Nobel Peace prize
Narendra Modi has congratulated Yousafzai on getting the Nobel Peace prize
Lahore (Dunya News) – Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi on Wednesday received their official Nobel Peace prize in a prize distribution ceremony in Norway’s capital, Oslo.
On the occasion Nobel Committee chairman said that Yousafzai stood-up against the enemies of education and those who are against the fact that every child in this world has a right to get himself educated.
He also said that Islam does not permit suicide attacks and that it is a religion that preaches peace.
Internationally acclaimed voice artist Rahat Fateh Ali Khan gave a mesmerizing performance during the ceremony.
Indian Nobel Peace laureate Satyarthi said that not only Yousafzai but her friends are also like his daughters.
Indian prime minister (PM) Narendra Modi has congratulated Yousafzai on getting the Nobel Peace prize.
While addressing the participants of the ceremony, Satyarthi said that he feels extremely happy to receive this award. He said that he is representing the silent majority of the world.
Malala is the youngest Nobel Peace prize winner.
Reportedly, the ceremony is being showed on a big screen at the local school where Malala had been in Swat.
Family and relatives of Malala are also present there at the local gathering in Swat to watch the live telecast of the distribution ceremony in Oslo.
Yousafzai while addressing the participants of the ceremony said that she is eternally grateful to her father for not crippling her wings and let her dream and get education.
She said that Satyarthi is the champion of fighting for children’s rights.
Yousafzai said that some people call her the girl who was shot by Taliban while some as the girl who is a Nobel laureate but she is a girl who wants to see every child in the world get education.
She was always fond of discovering and experiencing new things back in Swat, she recalled.
Yousafzai said that she had two options at the start of her journey, firstly, to be killed and secondly, to speak up and then be killed and she chose the latter.
Terrorists have misused the name of her religion, Islam, she added.
She said that terrorists tried to stop her and her friends by attacking them but they failed.
Yousafzai said that many children in Africa do not have access to schools and many children both in Pakistan and India are deprived of education for various reasons.
She also said that one of her friends was forced to get married and gave birth to a son at such a tender age whereas she could have made a career for herself.
Yousafzai expressed a resolve to continue her struggle until every child in the world gets education.
