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$10 million for ‘Malala fund’ President Zardari announces

by FIA
Dec 10, 2012
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PARIS: President Asif Ali Zardari Monday announced a $10 million donation for a global war chest to educate all girls by 2015 set up in the name of Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education.

The “Malala Fund for Girls’ Right to Education” aims at raising billions of dollars to ensure that all girls go to school by 2015 in line with United Nations Millennium goals.

Education Minister Waqas Akram signed the agreement with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization head Irina Bokova.

“A young determined daughter of my country was attacked by the forces of darkness,” President Zardari said at the high-profile “Stand Up For Malala” event at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

“We are facing two forces in the country; Malala represents the forces of peace and we are fighting with the forces of darkness, hatred and violence,” he said.

The ceremony drew French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, former British premier Gordon Brown, the UN Special Envoy for Global Education, and the former presidents of Finland and Chile.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the EU’s top diplomat Catherine Ashton sent special videotaped messages of support.

The 15-year-old schoolgirl, who is recovering in a British hospital after being brutally attacked on her school bus on October 9, will herself join the campaign when she is better.

Ziauddin Yousafzai, Malala’s father, a former teacher and headmaster has been appointed to help in what Brown has dubbed a new ‘Malala Plan’ to get all girls into school around the world by the end of 2015.

President Zardari slammed fundamentalists for giving the religion a bad name.

“The first word of the holy Quran is ‘iqra’ which is ‘read’,” he said, attacking the fringe minority of darkness, of hatred, of conflict. “What extremists fear is a girl with a book in her hand,” he said.

The UN estimates that 61 million children do not go to school and girls account for two-thirds of this number.

Brown said the initiative, which he hoped would attract “billions of dollars of public subscriptions”, also aimed at stopping social evils such as child marriage and violence against girls.

He said he wanted Malala’s birthday, July 12, to be designated a day of action each year when children around the world are invited to march, demonstrate, petition and pray for education to be delivered worldwide.

‘Daughter of Pakistan’

The National Assembly on Monday unanimously adopted a resolution asking the government to declare Malala Yousufzai as ‘Daughter of Pakistan’.

“This House gives great importance and significance to the sacrifice made by Malala Yousufzai for the sake of education. This House, therefore, recommends that Malala Yousufzai may be declared as Daughter of Pakistan,” says the resolution.

Tags: Asif ZardariCulturalDaughter of PakistanEducationFrench MinisterfundsGordon BrownINCPakIraina BokovaMalala YosufzaiOrganizationParisScientificUnited NationsWorld
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