MALALA MARKS HER DEGREE FROM OXFORD
London, June 19: Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner who once took a bullet for campaigning for girls’ education in Pakistan, was over the moon on Friday after completing her degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Britain’s prestigious Oxford University.
Malala, 22, who attended Oxford’s Lady Margaret Hall college, took to Twitter to share two pictures that show her celebrating the milestone with her family. “Hard to express my joy and gratitude right now as I completed my Philosophy, Politics and Economics degree at Oxford,” she said in the tweet, accompanied by two pictures — one showing her sitting with her family in front of a cake that says: ‘Happy Graduation Malala’, and the other in which she is covered with cake smiling for the camera.
In the tweet, the famed human rights activist also revealed her plans for the immediate future — Netflix, reading and sleeping. “I don’t know what’s ahead. For now, it will be Netflix, reading and sleep,” she wrote. Malala was shot in the head by the Taliban militants in December 2012 for campaigning for female education in the Swat Valley in northeastern Pakistan. — PTI
Demonstrators march during a Juneteenth march and rally in Washington, D.C., on Friday. The US marks the end of slavery by celebrating Juneteenth, with the annual unofficial holiday taking on renewed significance as millions of Americans confront the nation's living legacy of racial injustice. — AFP