Petition sponsor Ms Choudhry was born in the UK, but at the age of 16 was taken out of school, sent to Pakistan and forced into a marriage. "I missed out on years of my education and I know there are other girls in our communities who still suffer in the same way. There are girls like Malala in the UK," she writes. "While my friends completed their GCSE’s and A-levels I was trapped, afraid of what would happen to me if I resisted. Eventually, I managed to escape back to the UK and when I was 28 I was finally able return to education, but I still think about the years I missed. I also think about all the other girls in our communities today who are in the same situation," adds Ms Choudhry.