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Malala Yousufzai

An Inspiring Lunch with Malala Yousufzai

June 26, 2015 by Women For Afghan Women

Last week, I had the honor and pleasure of attending a small luncheon where the special guests were Malala Yousufzai and her father Ziauddin Yousufzai. I have admired them both ever since the attack Malala suffered at the hands of the Taliban, and it is my great fortune that I met them not at a huge event but at an intimate luncheon where I could speak with them at leisure. This encounter with Malala and Ziauddin confirmed something that I had always suspected -- that the struggles of Afghans and Pakistanis are very closely connected, if not one and the same. …

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