NOBEL PRIZE; Pakistan and India are red faced about their new Nobel Winners.

http://www.alternet.org/world/why-nobel-peace-prize-red-faced-moment-pakistan-and-india?akid=12367.294211.4owv6-&rd=1&src=newsletter1023344&t=14

But the larger embarrassment is while we rebuke a Maria Sharapova for the temerity of not knowing who Sachin Tendulkar is, we have been caught with our pants down as we desperately Google our first 100% pucca desi Nobel Peace prize winner. (Dr Rajendra Pachauri won in 2007 but it was really the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which he was chairing.)
But Indians can console themselves, as they often do, by looking across the border and saying the Pakistanis have it worse. We can be embarrassed about not knowing our Nobel laureate but at least we didn't drive our Nobel laureate out of the country to Birmingham.
For Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai's award hardly covers the country in glory. It really reiterates a horrible shocking and festering reality - the simple act of trying to get an education can get a girl shot in the head.