With the glitters of a Nobel laureate, global news personality and girls education campaigner at a young age, Malala Yousafzai never allowed her focus to shift away from her studies.
It finally paid off. She passed in flying colors with a string of A and A* grades in her GCSE exams.
"My wife Toor Pekai and I are proud of Malala getting 6A*s and 4As," Malala's father Ziauddin Yousafzai tweeted a day after the GCSE results were released. Yousafzai closed the message with a slogan so dear to his daughter: #education for every child.
The 18-year-old student at the independent Edgbaston high school for girls in Birmingham performed extraordinarily well in maths and science subjects.
Edgbaston high school recorded a GCSE pass rate of 98.3 percent this year.
Malala's life is an unparalleled story of an ordinary Pak girl who overcame a number of painful and frightening ordeals with providence and will power.
The ninth-grade student was returning home in van from her school in Mingora in the north-western Swat Valley on 2012 October 9 when she was shot on her head by Taliban gunmen in response to her campaign against the destruction of girls schools in Pakistan.
After undergoing surgery that removed bullets that pierced just above her left eye and ran along her jaw, grazing her brain, Malala was unconscious and fighting for her life when she was airlifted to Britain. Malala recuperated fast after receiving specialist treatment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Malala's father Ziauddin Yousafzai, mother Toorpekai and younger brothers, Khushal and Atul have since been living in a house in the West Midlands, arranged by the Pakistan government.
Ziaududdin was appointed education attaché at the Pakistan Consulate in Birmingham.
Malala won the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 2013, and the next year, at the age of 17, became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Malala has refused to attend hundreds of speaking engagements and interviews saying her priority is not to miss a school day.
Still under a death threat of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) despite a group of 50 Islamic clerics in Pakistan issuing a fatwa against those who tried to kill the innocent girl, Malala plans to remain in the UK for the remainder of her education, which is her weapon.
She gave her first public speech in September 2008, entitled "How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to an education?".
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