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Malala Yousafzai: Education Women Swat Valley Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Taliban Banned Girls From Attending School

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She advocates for education rights, especially for girls, in her native Swat Valley of Pakistan where the Taliban had banned girls from attending school. On October 9, 2012, she was shot by the Taliban while on her school bus but survived and continues her advocacy internationally. She believes in educating all children and creating a more peaceful world.

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Malala Yousafzai: Education Women Swat Valley Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Taliban Banned Girls From Attending School

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She advocates for education rights, especially for girls, in her native Swat Valley of Pakistan where the Taliban had banned girls from attending school. On October 9, 2012, she was shot by the Taliban while on her school bus but survived and continues her advocacy internationally. She believes in educating all children and creating a more peaceful world.

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MALALA YOUSAFZAI

Malala is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prizelaureate. She
is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in
the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at
times banned girls from attending school. Yousafzai's advocacy has since grown into an international
movement, which was lead into a war.
She stood up in her native Pakistan, in the violent SWAT region controlled by the Taliban. She has
been called the most famous teenager in the world, and has provided the spark for a growing
worldwide movement to provide education to every child on Earth.
Malala visited Pakistan as an educational consultant in 2003, working with a grade school there to
develop a distance learning capability. There is a special place in her heart for the Pakistanis. The
people she met were noble and gracious, generous to a fault, and believed that receiving visitors
was an honor. She was honored with their hospitality. They told her that they were shamed by their
few countrymen who were violent extremists. The Taliban had not yet gained the strong foothold it
would grasp a few years, but they were frightening even then.
On October 9, 2012 she was shot on the head and neck by a Taliban who had boarded her school
bus on its way back from school. She ignored her pain in order to survive for a long period. A group
of 50 Islamic clerics issued a fatwa against those who tried to kill her. But, the Taliban juat continued
threatening her.
Malala continues to speak even while she is still wounded and she told them to allow the children to
grow, to learn things they need to learn and to get good education. She is a hero because she
wants to halp make a world a better place with disciplined people.

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