Maybe. Give her a break, I say. She's a teenager and as such more prone than older more mature people to feel uncomfortable talking about certain things. How many people want to answer every single audience question?
But the "near death experience" does make her situation unique, right? Someone almost dead, miraculously revived and with lasting damage from the shooting. She might be milking the situation, there's no clear evidence though but a possibility always exists, but the problem is that nobody can deny, what happened to her, except the stupid at-times religious motivated conspiracy theorists with stuff ranging from the shooting being staged, from her father grooming her before and like I make a parody of them that maybe she shot herself. If the state of Pakistan feels ashamed/threatened by her mere presence and lectures in the West, she should have made certain her security and well-being, in the first place, back then. The Swat fiasco could have been easily avoided, if we had attempted to keep the weapons flow and extremist ideology in check. (same goes for Red Mosque, Islamabad which tarnished the image and reputation of the country greatly, because the military or any authority didn't act in time, when the weapons and gear were being accumulated inside a place of worship and still the Pakistanis/Pakistani media protested in support of the militants, after they were killed, where was the "deep hypocritical concern" for the country's image then I ask?). Now, she is free to do, anything as she pleases, regarding the incident, free to explain it in any way she prefers, because we don't have the moral reason or any authority to blame or criticize her for anything. She has a valid genuine reason and I tell you with great confidence that if anyone else was offered the chance to migrate to the West or elsewhere, after such a great tragedy. Majority of them, would have taken it. The survival is the prime directive of the human brain.
She is just another human. A teenager, highly intelligent I can tell. And except for pent-up justified anger emanating in certain irrational statements in criticism of religiously motivated men (Note: not the religion itself) and against the country, she will not continue to say anything similar in the future. Give her some time to mature. Whats with harshly judging a "big child"?
Nope, the responses from a large number of Pakistanis over little things, tell me otherwise. There is no such thing as bad publicity, my brother. (you might be my uncle, for all I know Lol). You will sell her. And I will sell her. Even though, she might be selling nothing, in the meantime.
The case of the Kardashians come to my mind (even though I am not comparing her with them) but making a point about people hating certain people and them becoming "famous".
