Posted by jincy on Jan. 13, 2013, 5:33 p.m.
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani school student and education activist from the town of Mingora in the Swat District of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. She is known for her education and women's rights activism in the Swat Valley, where the Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school.