LONDON: Surprised at the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban, Pakistani activists and the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai said he was “very worried” for women, minorities and human rights advocates living in a torn country.
The 24-year-old rights activist, who was shot in the head by Taliban militants in 2012 in the Pakistani Swat region for his campaign for girls’ education, urged global and regional strength to call for a direct ceasefire and provide assistance to civilians in Indonesia Afghanistan.
“We watched with shock because the Taliban controlled Afghanistan.
I am very worried about women, minorities, and human rights advocates,” he tweeted on Sunday.
“Global, regional and local forces must call for a direct ceasefire, provide humanitarian assistance that is urgent and protecting refugees and civilians,” Malala wrote, who now lives in England.
The Old War in Afghanistan reached a watershed moment on Sunday when the Taliban guerrillas closed in Kabul before entering the city and took over the Presidential Palace, forcing fighting President Ashraf Ghani to join fellow citizens and foreigners to escape from the country.
The Taliban rebels began to move towards Kabul after the collapse of the two remaining cities in Mazar-e-Sharif and Jalalabad.
Malala was shot by local Taliban militants in December 2012 for a female education campaign in the Swat Valley in the Northeast Pacism.
Severe injured, he was flown from a military hospital in Pakistan to another Pakistan and then flown to England for care.
After the attack, the Taliban released a statement that they would target Malala again if he survived.
At the age of 17, Malala became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his education advocacy in 2014 when he shared a coveted honor with Indian Social Activist Kailash Satyarthi.
Unable to return to Pakistan after his recovery, famous activists moved to England, established Malala funds and supported local education advocacy groups with focusing on Pakistan, Nigeria, Jordan, Syria and Kenya.
He started his campaign only 11, when he began writing a blog for BBC Urdu services in 2009 about life under the Taliban in Swat in Khyber Province Pakhtunkhwa, where they prohibit the education of girls.
Malala finished his title in the philosophy, politics and economy of the fastest Oxford University in June last year.
In 2007, Islamic militants had taken over the area and imposed a brutal government.
The opponent was killed, the people were whipped to the public for violations of Islamic law, women were banned from going to the market, and girls were stopped from going to school.
Taliban, who oppose the education of girls, has destroyed hundreds of schools in Pakistan.
The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, but after the attack on September 11, 2001 in the United States, the brutal regime of militant groups ended when they were expelled from power by US LED forces in 2001.
Group, however, had carried out attacks in recent months and now has seized power again.
‘Very worried’ for women, minority as Taliban Control Afghanistan: Malala
