HARVARD UNIVERSITY'S
HUMANITARIAN OF THE YEAR.
A Pakistani girl who
survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban is being honoured as Harvard
University's humanitarian of the year.
Malala
Yousafzai is an outspoken proponent for girls' education.
She
was at Harvard yesterday to accept the 2013 Peter J Gomes Humanitarian
Award.
Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust says she was pleased to welcome Malala
because of their shared interest in education.
The
16-year-old Malala says she's hoping to become a politician because politicians
can have influence on a broad scale. She spoke nostalgically about her
home region, the Swat Valley. She says she hopes to return someday. Malala was
shot in the head last October.
Militants say she was attacked because she was critical of the Taliban, not
because of her views on education.
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