Lahore, A group of leading Pakistanis, living in the United Kingdom (UK) are going to work on a project to build a school to honour Malala Yousufzai for her vision and courage to promote education.
Chairman of Management Committee of the Human Rights Society of Pakistan (UK Chapter), Ahmad Shahzad said this on Monday.
He said Malala had become a symbol of girls’ education not just in Pakistan but in the entire world. Malala’s courage provides strength to our nation that we can educate our youngsters in order to fight terrorism, Shahzad, OBE, said.
Ahmad Shahzad said the project was also being linked with former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who was presently the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education.
The former Mayor of Brent, Ahmad Shahzad, said the first school would be named after Malala and it would be built at Malala’s birth place near Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He said his visit to Pakistan was part of the efforts for the project and the Pakistan chapter of the HRSP, headed by S M Zafar, had given a go-ahead for the project which would be a gift to Malala.
He said that Lord Nazir Ahmed and Lord Qurban Hussain were the patrons of the school project, maintaining that leading businessmen, doctors, lawyers and people from different walks of life, living in the United Kingdom, had assured him support to the project. He talked about the significance of education and said that Malala had quite courageously highlighted the cause of education, especially the girls’ education.
Ahmad Shahzad, OBE, said Pakistanis in the UK had very deep concerns about terrorism which, he termed, a war on innocent people by the extremists in Pakistan. The foreign Pakistanis have lost many relatives in unfortunate incidents of terrorism in Pakistan, he said.
Ahmad Shahzad, OBE, said the HRSP would also build schools and name them after the friends of Malala Yousufzai, including Kainat and Shazia, who were injured during the attack on Malala in October.
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