Malala Yousufzai – YOUTH of ACTION

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Malala Yousafzai (Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ‎, born 1998) is a student from the town of Mingora in Swat District, Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, Pakistan, known for her women’s rights activism in the Swat Valley, where the Taliban regime has banned girls from attending school. In 2009, at the age of 11, Yousafzai came to prominence through a blog she wrote for the BBC, detailing her life under the Tehrik-i-Taliban regime and their attempts to take control of the valley, a confrontation which would later require the Pakistani military to intervene. Yousafzai has since been nominated for several awards, and has won Pakistan’s first National Peace Prize.

Awards

When Yousafzai‘s BBC blogging identity was revealed, the international children’s advocacy group KidsRights Foundation included her among the nominees for the International Children’s Peace Prize, making her the first Pakistani girl nominated for the award; she was runner-up.

In November 2010 Yousafzai was awarded Pakistan’s first National Peace Prize, and in December, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani named the prize after her. On Malala’s request, the prime minister has directed the authorities to set up an IT campus in the Swat Degree College for Women.

Yousafzai has expressed to the media her intent to form a political party focused on education. Since then, the Government Girls Secondary School, Mission Road, has been renamed Malala Yousufzai Government Girls Secondary School in her honor. HER BLOG

The assassination attempt produced an immediate outpouring of sympathy worldwide, and also widespread anger, with protests against the shooting being held in several Pakistani cities the day after the attack. Pakistani officials offered a $105,000 (10m rupee) reward for information leading to the arrest of the attackers. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking at a gathering of the American Girl Scouts movement, said Malala Yousafzai had been “very brave in standing up for the rights of girls” and that the attackers had been “threatened by that kind of empowerment”.

The Marxist theoretician Alan Woods in a solidarity statement released hours after the shooting stated that Yousafzai was a sympathizer of the International Marxist Tendency, and called the attackers “counterrevolutionary terrorists”, claiming that sections of the Pakistani state were behind such fundamentalist groups.

Fourteen-year-old Malala Yousufzai was admired across a battle-scarred region of Pakistan for exposing the Taliban’s atrocities and advocating for girls’ education in the face of religious extremists.

On Tuesday, the Taliban nearly killed her to quiet her message.

A gunman walked up to a bus taking children home from school in the volatile northern Swat Valley and shot Malala in the head and neck. Another girl on the bus was also wounded.

Surgeons have removed a bullet from the head of a 14-year-old girl, a day after she was shot by Taliban gunmen in north-western Pakistan’s Swat Valley.

Malala Yousafzai, a campaigner for girls’ rights, is reported to be in a stable condition after the operation.

The attack sparked outrage among many Pakistanis, who gathered in several cities for anti-Taliban protests and held prayers for the girl’s recovery.

The militants said they targeted her because she “promoted secularism”.

A spokesman for the Islamist militant group, Ehsanullah Ehsan, told BBC Urdu on Tuesday she would not be spared if she survived.

The BBC’s Aleem Maqbool in Islamabad says the authorities will now have to consider how to protect the girl.

He says her family never thought about getting security because they just did not think that militants would stoop so low as to target her.

Two other girls were injured in Tuesday’s attack, one of whom remained in a critical condition on Wednesday.

 

Malala Yousafzai 14 year old girl shot by Taliban has Bullet Removed – Surgery Successful

MALALA YOUSAFZAI, 14 Year Old Girl SHOT By PAKISTAN TALIBAN For Campaigning For EDUCATION
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Taliban gunmen have shot and seriously wounded a 14-year-old schoolgirl who rose to fame for speaking out against the militants, authorities have said.
Malala Yousufzai The schoolgirl activist became well-known in 2009

Malala Yousufzai was shot in the head and neck when gunmen fired on her school bus in Pakistan’s Swat valley.

She was airlifted to Saidu Sharif Teaching Hospital in the valley’s main town of Mingora, where doctors are battling to save her life.

Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said his group was behind the shooting. “She was pro-West, she was speaking against Taliban and she was calling President Obama her ideal leader,” he said in a telephone interview from an undisclosed location.

Police said two other girls were wounded in the attack.

The US State Department condemned the shooting as “barbaric and cowardly”.

Malala Yousufzai Malala was airlifted to hospital for treatment Malala became well-known in 2009 for speaking out against the Pakistani Taliban, appearing in television documentaries and blogging about her life. At the time, the Pakistan government was seen to be appeasing the hard-line Islamists.

The Government agreed to a ceasefire with the Taliban in Swat in early 2009, effectively recognising insurgent control of the valley whose lakes and mountains are popular with tourists. The Taliban set up courts, executed residents and closed girls’ schools, including the one that Malala attended.

Malala Yousufzai Doctors are now battling to save her life.

A documentary team filmed her weeping as she explained her ambition to be a doctor: “My friend came to me and said, ‘for God’s sake, answer me honestly, is our school going to be attacked by the Taliban?'”

Malala, then 11, wrote about the Taliban regime in a blog published by the BBC.

“During the morning assembly we were told not to wear colorful clothes as the Taliban would object,” she wrote in one post.

The army launched an offensive and retook control of Swat later that year, and Malala later received the country’s highest civilian award.

She was also nominated for international awards for child activists.

Since then she has received numerous threats.

The adults of this world must Take Action as the cost is too high for the children of our world.