Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai is being criticized online for appearing to wear jeans in an unverified photo.

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai is being criticized online for appearing to wear jeans in an unverified photo. 
According to The Indian Express, the image began going viral after being posted to a Pakistani Facebook group. 
It shows a young woman resembling Yousafzai walking in public with dark, fitted pants, ankle boots, a bomber jacket, and a head scarf on. 
While some expressed their doubts about the identity of the woman, the Facebook page also prompted negative comments including one where someone wrote, “I was thinking of preaching someone about keeping our culture of clothes alive when living abroad, and giving them example of Malala but I think, I can't do that now.”
“How long till the scarf is off too?” another person wrote. 
And the Daily Mail reports that one user posted the message, “Look at hypocrite Malala wearing pants! Is she even a Muslim?” 
However, numerous social media users have also come to Yousafzai’s defense; a tweet with the image states, “Malala wears basic Western attire & moral police come out. Let a girl breatheee. How many tell a guy to stick to cultural wear? Btw its Fall.”  
“More people lost their minds over Malala wearing jeans than when she got shot. Our priorities demonstrate why we are our own worst enemy,” another user tweeted. 
“Malala Yousafzai photographed wearing jeans and all the haters go wild. This mentality is what keeps nations and societies in decline,” someone else wrote.
The 20-year-old recently began attending Oxford University five years after being shot in the head; she was targeted for writing anonymously about living under the Taliban in Pakistan including their stance against educating girls. 
Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for her advocacy of schooling for children.