LONDON: Pakistani Taliban’s shot girl in Swat, Malala Yousafzai, has inaugurated Europe’s biggest “Library of Birmingham” on Tuesday.
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani school pupil and education activist from the town of Mingora in the Swat District of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, who was shot down by Taliban on October 9, 2012.
Malala inaugurated the “Library of Birmingham’ today where at least 1 million books have been placed in order to promote education amongst the students across the World.
The Library of Birmingham was built with cost of £189m while it has more than 200 public access computers, theatres, an exhibition gallery and music rooms.
Malala placed her copy of The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho in the library – the last book to go on the shelves. She has been given membership to access the archive.
The new building also contains the Shakespeare Memorial Room, home to a collection of 43,000 books, including copies of the Bard’s First, Second, Third and Fourth Folio editions.
While addressing to the inauguration event, Malala Yousafzai highlighted the importance of education by saying that Education is important in establishment of peace in the World and books are a precious treasury.
Malala Yousafzai, who is currently residing in Birmingham after being treated at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, expressed his feeling about the city by saying, “Birmingham is my second home after Pakistan.”
Malala was targeted by the Taliban after campaigning for girls’ rights to go to school. It was in part of the country where Islamic fundamentalists were trying to impose a strict form of Sharia law.
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