Why Pakistan Hates Malala

The West reveres Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai. Pakistanis resent and envy her.

Foreign Policy
Aug 17, 2017 · 9 min read
Malala Yousafzai , center, attends the premiere of “He Named Me Malala” at The Ziegfeld Theatre on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015, in New York — Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

By Michael Kugelman

On July 7, Malala Yousafzai posted her first tweet. Within hours, she had earned several hundred thousand followers and a warm welcome from the Twittersphere. Over the next few days, as word emerged on social media that she…

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