Tag: Nobel Laureate
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Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel Prize
A jailed Iranian women’s rights advocate, Narges Mohammadi, is the winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for her fight against the oppression of women and advocacy for social reform. She was awarded the prestigious prize on Friday, while she is till behind bars, for her efforts to promote human rights and freedom for all”,…
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Who won the Nobel Peace Prize 2022?
This year’s Peace Prize is awarded to human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties. Ales Bialiatski: Ales Bialiatski was one of the initiators of the democracy movement that emerged in Belarus in the mid-1980s. He has devoted his life…
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Nobel Peace Prize 2022: Muslim Indian journalist listed as unofficial favourite
Co-founders of Indian fact-checking website Alt News, Pratik Sinha and Mohammed Zubair have been listed as an unofficial favourite for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, ahead of the announcement of the winner on October 7. TIME magazine, in a report, compiled a list of “some of the favourites to win, based on nominations that were…
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Miftah Ismail commended for his ‘bold and clear’ comments on violence against religious minorities
Speaking on Geo News’ programme “Naya Pakistan”, Finance Minister (FM) Miftah Ismail on Sunday said that most Pakistanis are driven by emotions and not rationality. “How many people spoke up for a Christian couple burnt alive in an industrial kiln? A few days ago, an Ahmadi was killed but not many people raised their voices. People…
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VIDEO: ‘Just leave the house,’ Malala warns Asser if he shaves his beard
A video of Nobel laureate and women’s education rights activist Malala Yousafzai and her husband Asser Malik taking a New Year challenge to decide their resolutions for the next year has been doing rounds on social media. In the video, the couple can be seen sharing three resolutions each, but with a twist: the final…
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‘An absolute vision’: Priyanka, Katrina and others pour in congratulatory wishes for Malala
Pakistani Nobel laureate and activist Malala Yousafzai tied the knot with Asser Malik in a small intimate nikkah ceremony. Soon after Malala shared the pictures on her public social media accounts, congratulatory messages started pouring in by transnational celebrities. Have a look at some of the messages: Read more- ‘Precious day in my life’: Malala…
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Everything you need to know about Malala’s husband
Malala Yousafzai has tied the knot with Asser Malik in a small, intimate nikkah ceremony in Birmingham. Malala looked radiant in a tea-pink shalwar kameez while Asser Malik wore a black suit with a matching tea-pink tie to compliment Malala’s dress. July 12, 2021, Asser wished Malala on her 24th birthday by tweeting, “Happy Birthday…
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Malala: Pakistan’s pride
Malala Yousafzai, a name that evokes different emotions – from pride to love to respect to a need to protect her from everything that is vile. Malala is the youngest Nobel laureate and the second Pakistani to win the Nobel after Dr Abdus Salam. Unfortunately, both Pakistani Nobel laureates have been vilified by many in…
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Hardliners smear portrait of Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam outside National Science College
A group of youngsters, allegedly science students, has smeared a portrait of the only Nobel laureate physicist from Pakistan and champion of science in the developing world, Dr Abdus Salam. A video doing rounds over the internet showed the group, consisting of State Youth Parliament Pakistan members, painting the portrait black while raising slogans against…
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Malala declared decade’s most famous teenager by UN
The United Nations (UN) has declared Pakistani education activist and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai as “the most famous teenager in the world” in the second decade of the 21st century, Pakistan Today reported. According to the details, the UN in part one of its review series has taken into account the events that happened between…