Youngest Noble laureatelink MalalaYousafzai link fatherhas said that his daughter’s comments about marriage during an interview toUK’s Vogue magazine were taken out of context.
The 23-year-old advocate for girls education gave a detailed interview tothe British magazine, covering a wide range of topics, including love andfamily.
Malala told Vogue although all her friends were finding partners, she’s notsure if that’s what she wants.
Malala’s parents had an “arranged love marriage”, and would like her to getmarried one day, but she isn’t sure if she’ll ever marry herself.
“I still don’t understand why people have to get married. If you want tohave a person in your life, why do you have to sign marriage papers, whycan’t it just be a partnership?” she said.
Malala’s comment sparked a debate on social media with some defending hercomments and others slamming her for ‘promoting the Western culture’.
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Amid a war of words on social media, a cleric from Peshawar city of KhyberPakhtunkhwa province, Mufti Shahabuddin Poplazai shared a tweet, seekingclarification from Malala’s father, Ziauddin Yousafzai.
The Imam of Qasim Ali Khan Mosque tagged the post to Ziauddin and wrote, “Areport is circulating on social media since yesterday that your daughter MalalaYousafzai link hascategorically rejected the institution of marriage and said that‘partnership’ is better than getting married.”
In response, Malala’s father said his daughter’s comments were taken out ofcontext, twisted and shared on media. He said there was no truth in thecomments being attributed to her on social media.
