Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Laureate, Is Assailed by Schools Group in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan A system of private schools on Monday unbridled a scathing public attack on Malala Yousafzai, the teenage Nobel laureate, in the most concerted assault yet on her reputation in her home country.

The All Pakistan Private Schools Federation, which entitlements to represent 150,000 schools across Pakistan, avowed that Monday would be “I am not Malala” day and urged the government to ban her memoir, “I Am Malala,” because it insulted Islam and the “ideology of Pakistan.”

We are all for education and women’s deliverance,” said Mirza Kashif Ali, the management’s president. “But the West has formed this character who is against the Constitution and Islamic ideology of Pakistan.

The public condemnation of Ms. Yousafzai, 17, who has been greeted all over the world as a figure of bravery, reflected how differently her celebrity has been received in some parts of Pakistani society  even after she mutually won the nobel peace prize with the Indian child human rights activist Kailash Satyarthi last month.

Abroad, Ms. Yousafzai is revered for ongoing her impassioned advocacy of education and girls’ rights after being shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012. She is presently studying in Britain, where she lives with her expatriate family.

But in her mother country, Ms. Yousafzai divides view. While some Pakistanis have glorified her as a national hero, others depict her as a Western stooge who has slandered both country and religion.

Traditionalists frequently cite from her memoir, written with Christina Pork, a reporter, to support their case. During the news conference on Monday, Mr. Ali accused Ms. Yousafzai of protective the author Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” remains debarred in Pakistan, in her book.

The condemnation of Ms. Yousafzai by the schools network, which is based in Lahore, activated an angry backlash on social media. The group symbolizes private schools from mostly poor and middle class regions, and not the country’s elite schools.