Malala marriage views: “I still don’t understand why people have to get married. If you want to have a person in your life, why do you have to sign marriage papers, why can’t it just be a partnership?”
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ISLAMABAD: Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai’s remarks about marriage have created a storm in feudal Pakistan.
The fanatics, who in 2012 almost killed her as a little school girl for advocating girl’s education rights and drove her family out of Pakistan, still want to own her.
Malala, who will be 24 on July 12, has said this about marriage in an interview for the July issue of British Vogue, “I still don’t understand why people have to get married. If you want to have a person in your life, why do you have to sign marriage papers, why can’t it just be a partnership?”
By her reamrks, Malala was hinting that a live-in relationship is better than marriage.
She says her mother frowns upon her daughter’s views.
“My mum is like, don’t you dare say anything like that! You have to get married, marriage is beautiful.’”
Malala says her father occasionally receives emails for marriage proposals from Pakistan. “The boy says that he has many acres of land and many houses and would love to marry me.”
She says, “Even until my second year of university,I just thought, ‘I’m never going to get married, never going to have kids – just going to do my work. I’m going to be happy and live with my family forever.’”
These remarks by Malala triggered protests in her native Pakistan.
Feudal lawmakers in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Friday created a ruckus over Malala’s views about marriage.
As if they still own Malala, these lawmakers belonging to the Pakistan Peoples Party and Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal asked her family to clarify her position on marriage.
“Malala should clarify if she has not made that statement,” demanded lawmaker Sahibzada Sanaullah.
Another lawmaker Inayatullah Khan said Malala’ views about marriage remarks have “damaged her personality,” according to Dawn.
The lawmaker asked Malala’s father to clarify whether what his daughter said was a slip of tongue or she was quoted out of context in the Vogue interview.
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