Sir: “One student, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world,” was the message from a teenager who moved the world. Her ideology has won her a Nobel Peace Prize. It is sad that a host of rightist and religious leaders are emitting venom and hatred against Malala. She is being termed a foreign agent and the attack on her a drama. Even her July 12, 2013, speech at the United Nations (UN) (celebrated by the UN as World Malala Day) angered many in Pakistan in which she referred to Jesus Christ, Lord Buddha, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela as sources of inspiration and compassion. The Punjab chief minister negated the speech by calling it a piece for ‘global consumption’. The launching ceremony of her biography in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) was cancelled forcefully, not by the Taliban but by some people of KP. Why cannot we see the prize as a gift for Pakistan? This prize goes to show the world that we are against terrorism, that we are working for girls’ education and are united to protect the vulnerable groups of society. It is unfortunate that Malala cannot return to her country due to security threats. What a nation we are; we accept murderers like Mumtaz Qadri as our heroes, and disregard the Nobel Peace Prize winner as a conspirator against Islam and Pakistan. Do we need to remind ourselves, how the last resting place of our first recipient of the Nobel Prize was desecrated? MASOOD KHAN Jubail, Saudi Arabia