World Leaders: Asma Jahangir

Asma Jahangir: She has survived a Taliban assassins bullets. She awes global superstars and enthralls world leaders. Shes been showered with awards, almost won a Nobel Peace Prize and recently published a memoir. She might be the most famous teenager on the planet, according to The Star. In fact, Asma Jahangir, a lawyer still fighting for human rights and equality for girls and women, has been doing it for decades and Shes just 16, yet known worldwide as the ultra-famous are by a single name. She is Malala. But no one comes from nothing. And Malala Yousafzai , the young Pakistani leading a global campaign for girls education and womens rights, has, in addition to heroically supportive parents, a figurative godmother in her homeland who risks her own life in the same cause. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.