Malala Yousafzai: Pakistan's divisive figure - Al Jazeera English

Malala Yousafzai: Pakistan's divisive figure - Al Jazeera English



Opinion: "Young girls in conservative communities struggling to
complete their education hold her up as a role model, while young men
and women with access to social media despise her for being a Western
puppet."

Bina Shah, an award-winning Pakistani writer from Karachi, writes for Al Jazeera.

It's
not Malala the person, but Malala the symbol whom Pakistanis have
wrongly identified as a Western provocation against the entire nation,
writes Shah [EPA]