Pakistan Bars Activist From Traveling To Time Event Honoring Her

The winner of the annual Nobel Peace Prize is set to be announced on Friday. The title has been bestowed upon U. S. presidents Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, activists Wangari Maathai and Malala Yousafzai—who won in 2014 alongside Kailash Satyarthi for their work “against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education”—and organizations such as Doctors Without Borders and the World Food Programme.

When Mahrang Baloch accepted an invitation to attend an event in New York City this week in honor of her and 99 others recognized on this year’s TIME100 Next list, she anticipated that she might face some obstacles at the airport. After all, the 31-year-old doctor had become a household name in Pakistan for her advocacy defending the rights of the country’s Baloch minority — a fraught issue in a country where separatists have fought an insurgency for decades.

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