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NAME : IRENE LIM YAN NI : HASHVINI NERMOGGAN
Hashvini : Hi Irene, how are you?
Irene : Hi Hashvini, I’m fine thank you. How are you??
Hashvini : I’m fine too. Irene do you know who is Malala Yousafzai?
Irene : Hmm I don’t know. Who is that? It sounds like a Pakistani’s name.
Hashvini : Yeah you are correct. She is a Pakistani who 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.
Irene : Oh yeah I remember now. In early 2009, at the age of 11–12, Yousafzai wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC detailing her life under Taliban rule, their attempts to take control of the valley, and her views on promoting education for girls.
Hashvini : The following summer, a New York Times documentary was filmed about her life as the Pakistani military intervened in the region, culminating in the Second Battle of Swat. She has since been nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by Desmond Tutu and the Nobel Peace Prize. She is the winner of Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize.
Irene : Early life of Malala Yousafzai. Malala Yousafzai was born into a Muslim family of Pashtun ethnicity in July 1997. At her house in Mingora, she lived with her two younger brothers, her parents, and two pet chickens. She affectionately referred to the region as "my Swat."
Hashvini : Yousafzai was educated in large part by her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, who is a poet, school owner and an educational activist himself. Ziauddin referred to his daughter as something entirely special, permitting her to