Youngest Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai Holds Wedding Ceremony in the UK

▲Malala Yousafzai (left) [Photo by Malala Yousafzai Twitter capture]

[Asia Economy Reporter Kwon Jae-hee] Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani female education activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 as the youngest recipient at age 17, held her wedding at her home in Birmingham, UK.

According to the BBC on the 10th (local time), Yousafzai, now 24 years old, posted on Twitter, "Asser and I got married and became lifelong partners," sharing photos of the Islamic wedding ceremony, Nika, attended by family members.

She said, "Today is a precious day in my life," adding, "I am excited about the journey ahead that we will walk together."

The Nika ceremony, in which the bride and groom consent to the marriage, is the first step of an Islamic marriage without legal binding. It usually leads to a secular wedding ceremony, but Malala did not disclose whether a separate ceremony was held.

Yousafzai only revealed the groom's name as 'Asser,' but internet users identified him as Asser Malik, head of the Performance Improvement Center of the Pakistan Cricket Board.

Thousands of people liked the news of their marriage, congratulating them and wishing the couple happiness.

Yousafzai raised her voice advocating for women's rights and exposed the atrocities of the Pakistani Taliban (TTP), and at age 15 in 2012, she was shot in the head on her school bus.

She was then transferred to the UK and treated at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, and in 2014, at age 17, she became the youngest Nobel laureate in history.

Afterward, she attended school in Birmingham and then entered Oxford University to study Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.

After graduating from university, Yousafzai has been actively working as a women's rights and education activist, signing documentary contracts with Apple TV+ and giving interviews to fashion magazine Vogue.

Recently, regarding the Afghan Taliban regime's ban on women's education, she joined other human rights activists in urging, "Afghanistan is the only country in the world that prohibits education for female students," and called for "the immediate reopening of middle and high schools for female students."

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