Why Human Rights Defender Gulalai Ismail Fled Pakistan

Gulalai Ismail

Gulalai Ismail won't tell me how she came to New York. Doing so, she says, will put too many lives at risk.

Gulalai Ismail is a longtime human rights activist in Pakistan. Her organization, Aware Girls, helped to train the likes of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai and hundreds of other Pakistani girls, mostly in the very conservati…