Proud Pakistani,not a Western puppet: Malala

The activist was shot in the head on her school bus on October 9 last year for speaking out against the Taliban.

On Thursday,she won the European Unions prestigious Sakharov human rights prize,while US President Barack Obama welcomed her to the White House on Friday.

Asked in a BBC television interview broadcast Sunday about some people in Pakistan thinking she was a figure of the West and a Westerner now,she said: My father says that education is neither Eastern or Western. Education is education: its the right of everyone.

Malala added,The people of Pakistan have supported me. They dont think of me as Western. I am a daughter of Pakistan and I am proud that I am a Pakistani.

She said later on life she wants to join politics. I want to become a leader and bring the change in Pakistan. I want to be a politician in Pakistan because I dont want to be a politician in a country which is already developed, she said.