Nobel prize winner Malala Yousafzai is targeted by vile trolls for 'wearing skinny jeans and high heels' instead of traditional Muslim dress as she begins studying at Oxford (7 Pics)

Women's rights activist Malala Yousafzai has been trolled for 'wearing jeans and heeled boots' during her first week at Oxford University.

The Nobel laureate was criticised after she was seen in an unverified photo, published in Pakistan media, apparently swapping her shalwar kameeze for skinny jeans, ankle high boots and a bomber jacket.

The 20-year-old narrowly avoided death in 2012 after being shot by the Pakistani Taliban for her outspoken campaigning over girls' rights to an education.

Malala went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her global campaigning work and a place at the Russell Group university, where she is studying philosophy, politics and economics.

But she became the target of abuse over the weekend after an apparent image of her was shared on the Facebook page of Pakistani forum Siasat.pk on Saturday.

Some people even compared her to porn star Mia Khalifa despite keeping her 'duppata' on her head as she has done since she arrived in Britain five years ago.

Yaseen Khan wrote: "She is the player of American game . I feel very embarrassed to say that she is Pakistani."

And UxMan MaAn wrote: "Next Mia Khalifa."

While Shaiq Sirajuddin Shah wrote: "It's not particularly important for men but WOMEN SHOULDN'T wear those tight jeans because they get exposed."

Another vitriolic message, which was posted on Twitter and re-published in the Pakistani media, said: "That was the reason the bullet directly targeted her head long time ago."

Astonishingly one social media user even doctored the image of Malala  to 'solve the problem'

But scores of other people hit out at the criticism.

Huraira wrote on Twitter: "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."

Imaan Mazari-Hazir wrote: "More people lost their minds over Malala wearing jeans than when she got shot. Our priorities demonstrate why we are our own worst enemy."

BBC presenter Anita Anand, who presents Radio 4's Any Answers? told MailOnline : "Malala can wear whatever she likes as far as I'm concerned.

"The baying criticism is coming from the most regressive quarters, and I doubt she could do anything to please them.

"I sincerely hope she never tries. All of my Pakistani friends agree with that sentiment.

"She is a heroine and a role model. Her insistence on an education has taken her to one of the finest learning establishments in the world. She refused to be deterred even though extremists tried to shoot her into line."

Malala herself has stayed out the argument, instead tweeting about her new book Malala's Magic Pencil - her first picture book, inspired by her own childhood.

Malala became famous after she wrote a blog at the age of 11 for BBC Urdu when the Taliban took over Pakistan's Swat Valley in 2007, killing, destroying schools and forcing women to wear burkas.

Ziauddin and Toor Pekai never thought the Taliban would target a child, especially a girl.

So she and Ziauddin were distraught as they watched their daughter fighting for life in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.

Fragments of bone had entered the membrane of her brain, and her organs were shutting down.

The left side of her face drooped – a vital nerve had been severed – and her hair was shaven.

Toor Pekai wipes her eyes with her scarf and says: “We told her she was brave and beautiful, but that night we cried, it was a long night.”

Following the assassination attempt in October 2012, the Yousafzais have re-built their life in Birmingham.