School Books With Malala's Photo Seized By Pakistan Officials: Local Media

Pakistan's private schools' association had launched a documentary on Nobel laureate Malala Yousufszai for her controversial views on Islam, marriage and her pursuit of the Western agenda.

Pakistan authorities have confiscated copies of a school textbook in Punjab province for printing the picture of Nobel laureate Malala Yousufszai in the list of important personalities, apparently unhappy with the UK-based activist's controversial views on Islam. The youngest Nobel Prize laureate, Malala, who turned 24 on Monday, is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northwest Pakistan, where the local Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan had at times banned girls from attending school. Pakistan's private schools' association on Monday had launched a documentary on Malala for her controversial views on Islam, marriage and her pursuit of the Western agenda. On the same day, the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB) confiscated the social studies book for grade 7 published by the Oxford University Press (OUP) for printing the picture of Malala alongside that of military officer Maj Aziz Bhatti, who was killed in the 1965 war with India, in the list of important personalities, the Dawn newspaper reported on Tuesday.