Malala’s friends Shazia and Kainat honoured at awards ceremony

The two school girls injured alongside Malala Yousafzai in last year国产视频檚 bus attack in Pakistan have been honoured alongside their friend in a ceremony to celebrate influential Asians in the UK.

With support from A World at School, the two girls 国产视频� who initially stayed in Pakistan after the attack before it become too unsafe 国产视频� are now living and studying in the UK.

Awarded the Hammer Award at the Garaji Gujurart 2 Leadership Awards, Kainat Riaz said: 国产视频淭he whole world prayed for Malala and for us. Now we are here we can get a very good education. Now we get freedom.国产视频�

Shazia Ramzan added: 国产视频淲e have made lots of friends. They know what happened to us and are supportive.国产视频�

Malala herself was named the most influential Asian in Britain following her inspirational campaigning for girls国产视频� education over the past 12 months.聽 In a video message recorded specially for the awards, she said: 国产视频淚 am very happy to see Kainat and Shazia included because they are really brave and the day they were shot with me they didn国产视频檛 lose hope.国产视频�