{"id":78488,"date":"2013-10-12T20:28:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/in-oval-office-meeting-malala-yousafzai-tells-obama-to-end-drone-strikes-in-pakistan\/78488\/"},"modified":"2013-10-12T20:28:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:28:59","slug":"in-oval-office-meeting-malala-yousafzai-tells-obama-to-end-drone-strikes-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/in-oval-office-meeting-malala-yousafzai-tells-obama-to-end-drone-strikes-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"In Oval Office Meeting, Malala Yousafzai Tells Obama to End Drone Strikes in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:none\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/10\/12-2\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/commondreams.org\/files\/imce-images\/ispv5.aust_.91.jpg\" title=\"President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and their daughter Malia meet with Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban a year ago, in the Oval Office, Oct. 11, 2013.  PETE SOUZA &mdash; Official White House photo\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><span>President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and their daughter Malia meet with Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban a year ago, in the Oval Office, Oct. 11, 2013.  PETE SOUZA &mdash; Official White House photo<\/span><\/span>Malala Yousafzai, the sixteen-year-old Pakistani girl who survived a gunshot to the head by members of the Taliban for speaking out on women&#8217;s right to education, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2013\/10\/11\/205176\/obama-and-first-lady-meet-with.html\">told President Barack Obama<\/a> in an Oval Office meeting on Friday that he should stop drone strikes in countries such as Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released after the meeting, Yousafzai said that she told Obama that she is concerned about the effect of U.S. drone strikes in her country&mdash;a portion of the conversation that was omitted from White House statements so far.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I [expressed] my concerns that drone attacks are fueling terrorism,&#8221; Yousafzai said in a statement released by the <em>Associated Press<\/em>. &#8220;Innocent victims are killed in these acts, and they lead to resentment among the Pakistani people. If we refocus efforts on education it will make a big impact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yousafzai&mdash;the youngest ever nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize&mdash;was invited to the White House &#8220;for her inspiring and passionate work on behalf of girls education in Pakistan,&#8221; according to a White House statement.<\/p>\n<p>Yousafzai <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/10\/08\">also recently<\/a> called on the U.S. and U.K. governments to end military attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan in an interview with <em>BBC<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue,&#8221; she told <em>BBC<\/em>. &#8220;That&#8217;s not an issue for me, that&#8217;s the job of the government&#8230; and that&#8217;s also the job of America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yousafzai <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/oct\/10\/malala-yousafzai-wins-sakharov-prize\">was awarded a prestigious international human rights award<\/a>&mdash;the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought&mdash;on Thursday, but <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/10\/11-2\">did not win the Nobel Peace Prize<\/a>, as was announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">_______________________<\/p>\n<p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License<\/p>\n<p>Copyright: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/10\/12-2\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"In Oval Office Meeting, Malala Yousafzai Tells Obama to End Drone Strikes in Pakistan\">Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and their daughter Malia meet with Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban a year ago, in the Oval Office, Oct. 11, 2013. 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