Malala, Suu Kyi to address student parliament in Pune
Pune, India, 7 January 2014: Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who defied the
Taliban, and Myanmar opposition leader and Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi will
address students in Pune, India on January 10, an official of the Indian Student Parliament
said on Friday.
Malala and Suu Kyi will be present at the inauguration of the
three-day Indian Student Parliament (ISP) organised by the prestigious Maharashtra
Institute of Technology.
"Malala is expected to deliver one of the keynote
addresses at the ISP, or Bharatiya Chhatra Sansad. The other address will be delivered
by Suu Kyi," the official told IANS.
Malala will speak on women's education,
the importance of politics among the youth and share her views on politics, which
she intends to join in the near future, ISP founder-convenor Rahul Karad said.
The
16-year-old Malala's itinerary has not been made public yet for security reasons,
but she is likely to visit a few other Indian cities during her first ever trip to
India.
She shot to world fame and earned global admiration after she was shot
by Taliban militants in a school bus in 2012, for speaking out in favour of girls'
education in her native Swat Valley in Pakistan.
Achieving the status of an
international icon, Malala has been relentlessly pursuing her goals in an attempt
to prove that progressive thoughts are mightier than terrorist bullets.
The
ISP is a platform for students who wish to venture into politics. It hosts eminent
speakers like Suu Kyi and Malala to help and guide the young in the nation-building
endeavour, the official said.Source: UCAN