New Delhi, August 8: Malala Yousafzai, Pakistan's human rights activist and world's youngest Nobel Prize laureate, put up a post on Kashmir and its people saying they "have lived in conflict since I was a child" and appealed for peace, emphasizing on the diversity in the Indian sub-continent. Who Is Malala Yousafzai? 11 Interesting Facts About the Nobel Prize Winner on Her 21st Birthday.

The tweet by Malala, which comes days after the abrogation of Article 370 and the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir, has incited passionate responses from both sides of the border with Twitter users from Indian as well as Pakistan commenting on it. Article 370 Row: Petition Seeks Resumption of Internet, Phone Lines in J&K, SC Declines Urgent Hearing.

Malala wrote in her note that "the people of Kashmir have lived in conflict since I was a child, since my mother and father were children, since my grandparents were young. For seven decades, the children of Kashmir have grown up amidst violence." Article 370 Abrogated From Jammu and Kashmir: Home Minister Amit Shah Proposes Scrapping of the Article, What Does the Article State?

Malala added in her note that she is worried about the safety of the Kashmiri children and women, the most vulnerable to violence and the most likely to suffer losses in conflict."

Read the Note in the Tweet Below

Article 370 was abrogated by the government of India, cancelling the special status to the state of Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into two separate Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

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