Teanage Peace Campaigner Malalai Yusufzai shot by Taliban in Pakistan

[Leader]

what kind of coward moron will shoot a child , arrest these bastards and bring em for media trial.

TTP/Taliban... Ehsan ullah threaten Malala in march... just kill him !!

 

[valkyr_96]

Teenage rights activist shot in Pakistan
Malalai Yusufzai, a 14-year-old who campaigned for girls' education, attacked on way home from school in Swat Valley.
Last Modified: 09 Oct 2012 10:27

Malalai Yusufzai was reportedly shot twice on her way home from school [Al Jazeera]

Malalai Yusufzai, a 14-year-old education rights activist, has been shot and injured while on her way home from school in Mingora, the main town in the Swat Valley region of northwest Pakistan.

She was with one other girl, taking a school van home following an examination at the Khushal public school, witnesses told Al Jazeera.

Unidentified men stopped the vehicle, asking if it was the transport from Khushal school. When told that it was, one man asked: "Where is Malalai?"

As she was identified, the assailant reportedly drew a pistol and shot Malalai in the head and the neck. Her friend was shot in the hand.

Malalai rose to international prominence in 2009, after writing a a diary for BBC Urdu about life under the Taliban. She had famously stood against the armed group's attempts to stop girls from going to school, and was awarded the National Peace Award for Youth.

The international children's advocacy group KidsRights Foundation nominated her for the International Children's Peace Prize, making her the first Pakistani girl nominated for the award.

Malalai has been airlifted from the Swat Valley by a military helicopter, and will receive further treatment at a military hospital in Peshawar.

you can see Malalai in the PBS Now documentary on Pakistan she was 12 at that time

 

[Windjammer]

Shooting a 14 year old girl?? Pakistan is a mess.

Aren't you over exaggerating here, the other day a minor was killed and her body burned after being raped....does that imply India is in a mess. !!

 

[Jango]

She got shot in the head and then survived? Miraculous if you ask me.

Somebody has to be really on the dead bottom level of humanity to commit something like this. A 14 year old girl at point blank.

 

[Splurgenxs]

On a good note: she survived the two shots, went a successful surgery !!

wonderful, now tht she is alive she has the potential of being a big figure in Pakistani activism..

All the best wishes to her and here cause.

 

[Fasih Khan]

Bless You Sister. May She Recovers Soon. Ameen.

 

[SamranAli]

TTP/Taliban leader Ehsan ullah takes the responsibility of attack.

 

[somebozo]

Asif Sahab treats 'em savages right. In fact, he was lenient on 'em in that Operation Rah-e-Rast. Mullahs are the biggest threat to civilians. CIA, RAW, MOSSAD combined can't inflict the pain these Mullahs alone are capable of.

May the young activist get well soon.

Round up all mullahs in the street and shoot them..

this concerns me very much ...that MMA will be revived on 18th Oct.
Viva le Mullah rule - NOT..


Mullahs need to go out of Pakistan.

 

[pak-marine]

Sadly a blogger in an earlier article wrote about this little girl as future of Pakistan


‘Gulmakai’ – the future of Pakistan


By Nukhbat Malik | DAWN.COM | 11th July, 2012 86



Malala Yousafzai – photo by writer

“The only way to power is politics, and the only way to politics is education,” repeated the girl from Mingora, Swat who was among thousands of others whose lives were threatened by the Taliban in 2009, merely for seeking education.

Today, Malala Yousafzai is a beacon of hope for thousands of other girls who dare to dream of education and ambition. At the 8th International Conference on Women Leadership held in Islamabad last week, Yousafzai was given the excellence award in the category of “The Future of Pakistan”.

“I could not believe when I heard them calling me the future of Pakistan. I am highly encouraged by this award. I need appreciation and encouragement to complete a long and tough journey that is ahead,” she said upon receiving the award.

The world looked at the miseries of Swat through this beautiful pair of eyes, and realised the pain through the words that came out of her which she penned under the name of ‘Gulmakai’. The innocence in her writing represented those bereavements which many adults were unable to describe. Gulmakai’s diary was first published on BBC Urdu’s website in 2009. Aged 15, Malala is now studying in the 9th grade.

“Swat is peaceful now. But I don’t understand the fact that why the government is not showing any interest in rehabilitating the people who suffered the displacement. They are not even building the schools for us. It’s just the Pakistan Army with the cooperation of UAE government, which is helping recover Swat from the horrific aftermath of Talibanisation,” she exclaims with a mix of sorrow and anger.

Accompanying Yousafzai at the conference, her parents believe that their daughter has a long way to go.

“Death is inevitable. Every person has to die at some point, whether there is terrorism or not. This does not mean that we should stop walking on the path of truth. My husband and my daughter both have proven that no terror can hinder the way of truth. She is making us proud since the day she was born,” her mother states.

Forty-three year old Ziauddin is the proud father of Yousafzai, who heads the Khushal Khan School and College in Swat (for boys and girls). He was the spokesman of the National Jirga in Swat at the time of Talibanisation when Abdul Hai Kakar, then a correspondent of BBC, reached out to him and asked him to find a female teacher in Swat who could write about the cruelties of Taliban. To his disappointment no one agreed to do so.

“My only daughter, Malala was just 11 years of age when I first asked her to write about Swat and the Talibanisation in 2008. She did it. Not for the sake of her father’s wish, but for the sake of the safety and peace of her land. No one was willing to write the inside stories, the cruelty, the terror and the sufferings of the people of Swat because of the life threats by Taliban. She used the pseudonym, and I remember the first time I saw someone print the diary, I could not tell them that it’s my daughter who has written this. Today, I am happy that the world knows who Gulmakai is!”

Yousafzai’s ambition doesn’t end with obtaining education. She wants to be a politician when she grows up.

“Democracy is the best rule. This country needs new leaders. I want to study the law and I dream of a country in which education prevails and no one sleeps hungry. That would be my kind of country.”

The conviction in her voice, truly matches the title awarded to her. One can see her sparkling eyes witnessing the bright future of Pakistan.

Nukhbat Malik is an Islamabad based journalist/documentary filmmaker/social media

 

[somebozo]

TTP/Taliban... Ehsan ullah threaten Malala in march... just kill him !!

He is still on the lose?

In Saudi Arabia threatening someone to murder is equivalent of murder.

Same rule needs to apply in PK and throw these bastar_s in Jail!

 

[pak-marine]

 

[anilindia]

PESHAWAR: Pakistani Taliban accepts responsibility of attacking National Peace Award winner and young Pakistani rights activist Malala Yousufzai, who with another girl was injured in the attack on their school van on Tuesday, DawnNews reported.

Speaking to Dawn.com’s correspondent Zahir Shah Sherazi from an undisclosed destination, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan said that the TTP accepts responsibility of the attack as Malala was propagating anti-Taliban and ‘secular’ thoughts among the youth of the area.

Malala was returning home from her school in Swat’s Mingora area when her van was attacked by the gunmen.

Certain media outlets reported that the gunmen attacked the van on identifying the young children’s rights activist.

Sources said Malala was hit by couple of bullets to her neck and head.

Both injured girls were taken to the Saidu Sharif Hospital. According to doctors, Malala was now out of danger. However, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has ordered to shift her to a Peshawar hospital swiftly through a helicopter. The prime minister has strongly condemned the incident.

The incident spread fear and panic among the local residents.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain confirmed the shooting and blamed the attack on terrorists.

Yousafzai is 15 years of age and has already earned international fame for raising voice against Taliban oppression in Swat.

She was honoured with a first ever National Peace by the government and was nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize by advocacy group KidsRights Foundation in 2011 for being an inspiration to her friends by standing up against repression as her namesake did in Afghanistan in the 19th century.

Malala became the voice of all the girls in Swat when she began maintaining a diary on the website of the BBC under the pen name of “Gul Makai.”

The Pakistan army in 2009 effectively crushed a two-year Taliban insurgency in Swat where cleric Maulana Fazlullah presided over a brutal campaign of beheadings, violence and multiple attacks on girls’ schools.

After fierce fighting displaced around two million people, the army declared the region back under control in July 2009.

Despite sporadic outbreaks of violence, the government has since tried to encourage tourism in Swat.

It had been popular with Pakistani and Western holidaymakers for its stunning mountains, balmy summer weather and winter skiing.

TTP accepts attacking Malala Yousafzai in Swat | DAWN.COM

 

[third eye]

What kind of idiots are we looking at who would shoot a little girl for speaking up ?

 

[Imran Khan]

wow shemale talibans man try to kill a 14 years old girl mard ki ulaad ho to army se larty bhag gay kuty ki trah MF SOB talibs

 

[pak-marine]

What kind of idiots are we looking at who would shoot a little girl for speaking up ?

Ahsanullah Ahsan said the TTP accepts responsibility of the attack as Malala was propagating anti-Taliban and ‘secular’ thoughts among the youth of the area