Whenever I go and speak the only problem I
face is that
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.
