The antagonism towards Malala in Pakistan


By M Ilyas Khan-10 October 2014
Winning any Nobel Prize - let alone the celebrated Nobel Peace Prize - is usually a cause for national jubilation.
But in Pakistan the excitement felt by some at the news that 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai has become the youngest person ever to win the peace prize has been met in equal part by antagonism.
On social media congratulatory messages were followed closely by scornful and sarcastic ones.
