Malala Yousufzai: Taliban restrictions on women and girls are not Pashtun culture

Malala Yousufzai has repudiated the Pakistan to the UN representative’s comments that the Taliban’s restrictions on women and girls were part of the “Pashtun culture.”

Writing in the Dawn newspaper, the Nobel Laureate, who, in October 2012, was shot in the head by a Pakistani Taliban gunman in the head for her activism, said “As a Pashtun woman, a Pakistani and a Muslim, I must vehemently disagree. The Amb­assador, who has since apologised for his remarks, attempted to shift the blame for the inhumane misogyny facing Afghan women to Pashtun culture.”