Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif met Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai on the sidelines of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. She met with the PM after his speech at the United Nations General Assembly.
During her meeting with the PM she discussed the urgent needs of flood victims in Pakistan.
“We are calling on the international community to ease debt pressure and provide immediate humanitarian support,” wrote Malala in a tweet while sharing a picture with PM Shehbaz.
“The floods destroyed tens of thousands of schools, leaving hundreds of thousands of children without education. Humanitarian aid must include funding for emergency schooling, especially for girls,” the tweet added.
Malala also expressed her concern about “The reappearance of Pakistani Taliban in my hometown of Swat Valley & other parts of KP province.”
“Finally, I asked the Prime Minister to put more pressure on the Taliban to allow Afghan girls to go to school and women to go to work. Today Afghanistan is the only country where girls are banned from secondary school. Pakistan must stand for women’s rights and girls’ education,” wrote Yousafzai in the concluding tweet.
