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Pakistani's Malala Celebrates Sterling GCSE Success
 
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Fri, 21 Aug 2015   ||   Nigeria,
 

Popular girls’ education campaigner; Malala Yousafzai came out with flying colours in her GCSEs.

Yousafzai who is became the youngest person to ever win the Nobel Peace Prizei obtained a string of As and A*s in her GCSEs.

Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, took to Twitter to list Malala's grades which include A*s in GCSE and iGCSE maths.

"My wife Toor Pekai and I are proud of Malala getting 6A*s and 4As. #education for every child," wrote Mr Yousafzai.

Malala was shot by the Taliban after writing a diary about life under their rule in North-West Pakistan.

The 18-year-old, who now attends Edgbaston High School in Birmingham, achieved particularly well in the sciences, with top A* grades in biology, chemistry and physics - as well as in religious studies.

She also scored As in history, geography, English language and English literature.

Malala anonymous diary which was published on BBC’s Urdu website was the feat that first brought her to limelight. The diarywhich chronicled her desire to remain in education and for girls to have the chance of an education.

At the time, scores of girls' schools were being destroyed by militants in the Swat valley where she lived.

She survived being shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in October 2012 and was eventually flown to the UK for treatment and rehabilitation.

 

 

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