PARIS :The Taliban are fighting a lost cause and must accept peace talks, the father of Malala Yousafzai said Wednesday, accepting a key French award for the Pakistani schoolgirl shot for campaigning for girls’ education.
In an impassioned speech after accepting the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom on behalf of the 15-year-old, Ziauddin Yousafzai said his daughter was supported by the world and by God.“She fell but Pakistan stood up. And the whole world - north, south, east and west - supported her,” he said. “God protected her and protected the cause of humanity and education.”Yousafzai said the Taliban should now see the writing on the wall and “learn from this incident.“They should come to talks and to peace and to humanity,” he said, referring to Pakistan’s population and saying that if they wanted to impose their will “they will have to kill 180 million people and that’s impossible.”He quoted a Pakistani poet Rabia Basri who wrote: “There has been no lady prophet in history and no woman has been stupid enough to claim to be God.”Yousafzai added: “In my part of the world, fathers are known by their sons. Daughters are very much neglected. I am one of the few fortunate fathers who are known by their daughter.
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