Pakistani female education activist Malala Yousafzai became the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize recipient in 2014 together with Kailash Satyarthi.

The award was given to them for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.

Satyarthi is the seventh person from her country, India, to receive a Nobel Prize and only the second person to receive the Peace Prize after Mother Theresa.

On the other hand, Yousafzai is only the second Pakistani next to Abdus Salam to receive the award. But aside from that, she is the youngest Nobel Prize awardee for any field at the age of 17.

Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 after she preached and advocated girl's right to education.

She was attacked by masked gunmen in 2012 on a school bus in the Swat Valley in Northwest Pakistan. According to the gunmen, it was a punishment for Yousafzai for the blog that she started writing for BBC's Urdi service being an 11 year old to campaign against the Taliban's effort to deny the rights of education to girls.

She was unable to return to Pakistan after she recovered from her wounds, she moved to Britain and started to setup the Malala Fund to support the local education advocacy groups focusing on Pakistan, Nigeria, Jordan, Syria and Kenya.

On the other hand, 60 year old Satyarthi gave up his career as an electrical engineer in 1980 in order to campaign against child labor. He has also spearheaded various peaceful protests and demonstrations which focus on the exploitation of children for financial gain.

In a recent editorial by Satyarthi he said that data from non-government organizations indicated that child laborers could number 60 million in India or 6 percent of the total population.

He said "Children are employed not just because of parental poverty, illiteracy, ignorance, failure of development and education programmes, but quite essentially due to the fact that employers benefit immensely from child labor as children come across as the cheapest option, sometimes working even for free."

According to the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjoern Jagland, "The Nobel Committee regards it as an important point for a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani, to join in a common struggle for education and against extremism."