Malala Yousoufai
Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai is the person who admires the most from the South Asian Women. She is the girl who defied the Taliban in Pakistan and demanded that girls be allowed to receive an education. She was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012, but survived. Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan, located in the country’s Swat Valley. For couple years, her hometown remained a popular tourist’s spot that was known for its summer festivals. However, the area began to change as the Taliban tried to take control. As a child she wanted to become a doctor, although she became an advocate for girl’s education, which resulted in the Taliban issuing a death threat against her. In her early age, she attended a school that her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, had founded. The school was eventually forced to closed, and Ms. Yousafzai was forced to flee to Abbottabad, the town where Osama bin Ladin was killed last year. Months later, in summer 2009, the Pakistani Army launched a sweeping operation against the Taliban that uprooted an estimated 1.2 million Swat residents. The Taliban were sent packing, or so it seemed, as fighters and their commanders fled into neighboring districts or Afghanistan. An uneasy peace, enforced by a large military presence, settled over the valley. When she was 14, Malala and her family learned that the Taliban had issued a death threat against her. Though Malala was frightened for the safety of her father. She and her family initially felt that the fundamentalist group would not actually harm a child. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, Taliban gunmen answered Malala’s courage with bullets, singling out the 14-year-old on a bus filled with terrified school children, and then shooting her in the head and neck. Two other girls were also wounded in the attack. The shooting left Malala in critical condition at a hospital in Peshawar, with a bullet possibly lodged close to her brain. A portion of her skull was
Malala Yousafzai is the person who admires the most from the South Asian Women. She is the girl who defied the Taliban in Pakistan and demanded that girls be allowed to receive an education. She was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012, but survived. Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan, located in the country’s Swat Valley. For couple years, her hometown remained a popular tourist’s spot that was known for its summer festivals. However, the area began to change as the Taliban tried to take control. As a child she wanted to become a doctor, although she became an advocate for girl’s education, which resulted in the Taliban issuing a death threat against her. In her early age, she attended a school that her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, had founded. The school was eventually forced to closed, and Ms. Yousafzai was forced to flee to Abbottabad, the town where Osama bin Ladin was killed last year. Months later, in summer 2009, the Pakistani Army launched a sweeping operation against the Taliban that uprooted an estimated 1.2 million Swat residents. The Taliban were sent packing, or so it seemed, as fighters and their commanders fled into neighboring districts or Afghanistan. An uneasy peace, enforced by a large military presence, settled over the valley. When she was 14, Malala and her family learned that the Taliban had issued a death threat against her. Though Malala was frightened for the safety of her father. She and her family initially felt that the fundamentalist group would not actually harm a child. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, Taliban gunmen answered Malala’s courage with bullets, singling out the 14-year-old on a bus filled with terrified school children, and then shooting her in the head and neck. Two other girls were also wounded in the attack. The shooting left Malala in critical condition at a hospital in Peshawar, with a bullet possibly lodged close to her brain. A portion of her skull was