Summary Winning Nobel Peace Prize would be a great honor, Malala Yousafzai said.
NEW YORK CITY (AFP) - Teenage rights activist Malala Yousafzai told an audience in New York Thursday that she would like to become prime minister of Pakistan to "save" the country.
In an interview with CNN s Christiane Amanpour at a sold-out public event, Malala said she wanted to help her homeland.
"I want to become a prime minister of Pakistan," she told Amanpour to cheers from the audience.
"I think it s really good because through politics I can save my whole country," she added.
"I can spend much of the budget on education and I can also concentrate on foreign affairs."
Malala was shot in the head by the Pakistani Taliban on October 9, 2012, for speaking out against them.
She was flown to Britain for specialist care and made a remarkable recovery, going on to become a global ambassador for children s rights.
The 16-year-old has written an autobiography, addressed the United Nations and set up the Malala Fund.
On Thursday, she won the prestigious Sakharov human rights prize from the European parliament and has been tipped as a firm favorite for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The real prize, she said, would be to see every child, black or white, Christian or Muslim, boy or girl, go to school and "for that I will struggle and work hard."
