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Facebook Home Mohsin Privacy Shortcuts Account Settings Search for people, places and things Why Malala should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize October 10, 2013 at 5:31am By Maheen Usmani The importance of the support of the male figures in the lives of girls in matriarchial societies like Pakistan cannot be emphasised enough. Sadly, too many talented women are denied the opportunity to grow and blossom into their full potential. Ziauddin Yousafzai was recently asked if he had paid special attention to his daughter, Malala. How had she turned out the way she did? “I haven’t done anything. But I did not clip her wings as most fathers and families do. That’s all I’ve done. In fact, you could say she is the way she is not because of what I’ve done, but because of what I haven’t done.” Once upon a time in Karachi, a brilliant 19 year old girl was forced to abandon her studies at Cambridge University after one year beca