the podium is usually taller than me.

so I hope it will be good this time

I'm feeling honoured that I am being chosen as the Nobel

Laureate and I have been

honoured with this precious award to the Nobel Peace

Prize

and I am proud that I am the first Pakistani and the first

young woman or the first young person who is geting

this award

it is a great honour for me

and I am also really happy that I am sharing this award

with a person from India whose name is Kailash

Satyarthi

and his great work for child's rights

his great work against child slavery

totally inspires me and I'm really happy that there

are so many people who are working for children's

rights and I'm not alone and he totally

deserved this award

so I'm feeling honoured that I'm sharing this award with

him

He received this award and we both are the two Nobel

Award receivers

one is from Pakistan and one is from India

one believes in Hinduism one strongly believes in Islam

and it gives a message to people

it gives the message to people of love

between Pakistan and India

and between different religions

and we both support each other

it does not matter what is the colour of your skin

what language do you speak

what religion you believe in

it is that we should all consider each other

as human beings and we should to respect each other

and we should all fight for our rights

for the rights of children

for the rights of woman

and for the rights of every human being

First of all I would llike to thank my family

my dear father my dear mother

for their love for their support

as my father always says

he did not give me something extra

what he did

he did not clip my wings

so I am thankful to my father for not clipping my wings

for letting me fly and acheive my goals

for showing to the world that a girl is not supposed to be

the slave

a girl has the power to go

forward in her life

and she's not only a mother

not only a sister

she's not only a wife but a girl

she should have an identity

she should be recognised

she has equal rights as a boy

even though my brother thinks that they are treated um... that I am treated very well

and they are not treated very well but that is fine if it comes to that

that's fine

Well I would like to share with you how I found out about

the Nobel Peace Prize

and it is quite exciting because I was in my chemistry

class

and we were studying about electrolysis anode

cathode

and the time was I think 10.15 so the time of

announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize was gone

and before that I was not expecting that I would get this

award

and when it went to 10.15 I was totally sure that I haven't

won it

but then suddenly one of my teachers came to the class

and she called me and she said I have something

important

to tell you and I was totally surprised when she told me

that "Congratulations you have won the Nobel Peace Prize"

and you are sharing it with a great person who is also

working for children's rights"

and it is sometimes it is quite difficult to express your

feelings

but I felt really honoured

um, I felt more powerful and more courageous because

this award is not just a piece of metal or a medal that you

would wear or an

award you

would keep in your room

this is really encouragement for me

to go forward and to believe

in myself to know that there are people

who are supporting me

in this campaign

and we are standing together we all want to

make sure that every child gets quality education

so this is really something great for me

However when I found that I have won the Nobel Peace

Prize

I decided that I would not leave my school rather I would

finish my school time

I went to the Physics lesson and I learnt and I went to the

English lesson

and it was totally like.. I considered it as a normal day

and I was really happy with by the responses of my teachers and

my fellow students

They were all saying that we are proud of you and I am really

thankful to my school to my teachers to my school fellows

for their love for their support they are

really enrouraging me and supporting me

so I am really happy

even though it is not going to help me in my test and exams

because it totally depends on my hard work but still I am

really happy that they are supporting me

I have received this award, but this is not the end

this is not the end this is not the end of this campaign

which I have started I think this is really the beginning

and I want to see every child going to school there are

still 57 million children who have not received education,

who are still out of the primary schools and I want to see

every child going to school and getting

education because I have myself suffered

through the same situation when I was in Swat Valley and

you all may know that in Swat there was Talibanization

and because of that no girl was allowed to go to school

at that time I stood up for my rights and I said I would

speak up I do not wait for someone else I do not wait for

someone else I had really two options one was not to

speak and wait to be killed and the second was to speak

up and then be killed and I

chose the second one because at that time there was

terrorism, women were not allowed to go outside of their

houses because education was totally banned, people

were killed at that time I needed to raise my voice

because I wanted to go back to school I was also one of

those girls who could not get education

I wanted to learn and be who I

can be in my future and I also had dreams I also had

dreams like a normal child has

I wanted to become a doctor at that time now I want to

become a politician, a good politician and when I heard

that I cannot go to school, I just for a second thought that

I would never able become a doctor or I would never be

able to be who I want to be in the future and my life would

be just getting married at the age of 13 or 14, not going to

school, not becoming who I really can be so I decided

that I will speak up.

So through my story I want to tell other children all around

the world that they should stand up for their rights they

should not wait for someone else and their voices are

more powerful their voices it would seem that they are

weak, but at the time when no one speak, your voice gets

so loud that everyone has to listen to it everyone has to

hear it so it’s my message to children all around the

world that they should stand up for their rights

and the award that I have received Nobel Peace

Prize I believe that the Nobel Committee, they

haven’t given this just to me but this award is for all

those children who are voiceless, whose voices need to

be heard and I speak for them and I stand up with them

and I join them in their campaign, that their voices should

be heard and they should be listened and they have

rights they have rights they have the right to receive

quality education they have the right not to suffer from

child labor, not to suffer from child trafficking they have

the right to live a happy life so I stand up with all

those children and this award is especially for them it

gives them courage.

At the end I would like to share with you that I had a

phone call with Honorable Kailash I cannot pronounce his

surname accurately so please I just ask for forgiveness

for that I will just call him Kailash if he wouldn’t mind so I

had a phone call with him right now and we both talked

about how important it is that every child goes to school

and every child gets quality education and how many

issues are there that the children are suffering but I’m not

yet highlighted so we both decide that

we will work together for the cause that every child gets

quality education and do not suffer from these issues

other than that, we also decided that as he’s from India

and I’m from Pakistan we will try to build strong

relationships between India and Pakistan and nowadays

you know that there is tension on the border and the

situation is getting ....it’s not like as we are expecting,

we want Pakistan and India to have good relationships

and the tension that is going on is really disappointing and I’m

really sad because I want both the countries to have

dialogue, to have talks about peace and to think

about progress to think about development rather than

fighting with each other It’s important that both countries

focus more on education focus more on development

and progress which is good for both of them

so we both decided that I requested him that would

it be possible that he request His Honorable Prime

Minister Narendra Modi to join us when we receive the

Nobel Peace Prize in December and I promised him that

I would also request the Honorable Prime Minister of

Pakistan Nawaz Sharif to join us when I get and he gets

the Nobel Peace Prize and I myself request the

Honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Honorable

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that they both join us when

we receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

I really believe in peace

I really believe in tolerance and

patience and it is very important for the progress of both

countries that they have peace and they have good

relationships this is how they are going to achieve

success and this is how they are going

to progress

So it is my humble request and I hope it will be

will be listened.

at the end I want to say that I’m really happy for your

support.

I used to say that I think I do not deserve the Nobel

Peace Prize I still believe that but I believe that it is not

only an award for what I have done but also an

encouragement for giving me hope for giving me the

courage to go and continue this campaign to believe in

myself and to know that I’m not alone there are hundreds

and thousands and millions who are supporting me

so once again thank you so much to all of you

Thank you.