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In an attack drawing widespread condemnation, a lone Taliban gunman today approached a crowded school bus in Pakistan's once-volatile Swat region and opened fire. His target: A 14-year-old girl who'd campaigned against the Taliban for the right to go to school.
Television footage showed Malala Yousafzai lying on a stretcher and being airlifted to a military hospital in Peshawar. The gunman approached the bus and asked whether anyone could identify Malala, according to local police.
When one of her schoolmates singled out the teen, the gunman shot her twice, including once in the head. He also shot the girl who identified Malala before fleeing.
Malala is in serious condition, while the other girl's condition is unknown.
A Taliban spokesman has claimed responsibility, referring to her campaign for the right to go to school an "obscenity.
"This was a new chapter of obscenity, and we have to finish this chapter," Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan said in a statement sent to The Associated Press. "We have carried out this attack."
Malala's rise to prominence began in 2009, when she wrote a diary for BBC Urdu under a pseudonym chronicling the oppression she and other girls at her school faced at the hands of the Taliban. At the time, the Taliban had ordered the closure of all girls schools in the region.
Her father, who ran a private school, was forced to comply, leaving Malala and her friends with nowhere to study. In all, 50,000 girls were forced out of school in a matter of days.
In one blog post titled "Do not wear colourful dresses," Malala wrote about not wearing school uniforms, to avoid being detected by the Taliban.
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Pakistan's interior minister has said a 15-year-old schoolgirl activist who was shot in the country by the Taliban is a "symbol of courage and determination" against "extremist ideology". Malala Yousafzai is recovering in hospital in Birmingham after being shot on school bus on 9 October. Doctors at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital said she could make a good recovery. On Monday she was visited there by Pakistan minister Rehman Malik and UK Foreign Secretary William Hague. Mr Hague and Mr Malik, who were also accompanied by United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed, met surgeons and Malala's father Ziauddin.
'Acts of cowardice'
Mr Malik said the attack on Malala was "meant to tarnish the true face of Pakistan and to discourage those struggling for human liberties and for the democratisation of our society". He added: "Let me reassure our international friends that such acts of cowardice will not deter us and the whole Pakistani nation stands behind Malala and her cause." Mr Hague said Malala's "swift and full recovery is our absolute priority" and thanked the doctors at the hospital.
He added: "The people of Pakistan have paid a high price from terrorism and extremism. "We will stand by all those who, like Malala, are courageously defending the rights of women in Pakistan and around the world." Malala's father arrived at the hospital on Friday to visit his daughter, saying he believed she would "rise again" to pursue her dreams. He had revealed how the Pakistani president had taken the decision to move Malala because of the need for a safe environment for her recovery.
Doctors in Birmingham have said Malala is still weak but stands every chance of making a good recovery. The Pakistan Taliban said it carried out the attack because Malala was "promoting secularism". She had campaigned for the rights of girls to have an education and had written a diary for the BBC Urdu service when the Pakistan Taliban controlled her home area of Swat in 2009. Since the attack, the teenager has received thousands of goodwill messages from around the world.
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Pakistani Taliban gunmen opened fire on Malala Yousafzai on October 9, as she returned home from school in Pakistan's northwestern Swat Valley. The teenager was internationally known for speaking out in favor of girls' education and against the militant group who had taken over her hometown three years ago. On Monday, British Foreign Secretary William Hague, Emirati Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed and Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik visited Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the British city of Birmingham. Malala Yousafzai has been at the hospital for the past two weeks and remains in stable condition after being shot in the head and neck. She is able to talk and to walk with help.
The British Foreign Office said the ministers met the hospital's medical director and Yousafzai's father, who arrived in Britain last week with the girl's mother and two brothers. He said Malala will return to Pakistan after she recovers. Hague told reporters Monday ``I pay tribute, first of all, to her, and to the extraordinary example that she has shown to everybody across the world in the cause of education, the rights of women, I think she is an inspiration now not only to the people of Pakistan but all over the world.'' Zayed said the people of the UAE were "appalled" by what happened to Malala and that is why the UAE provided the air ambulance to transport her from Pakistan to Britain for further medical treatment.
Zayed added that "Malala's courage inspires us to reinforce our commitment to rejecting ideologies rooted in intolerance and extremism." The minister said "by helping Malala, whose courage we applaud, the UAE is also voicing its firm belief in the right of girls to education everywhere." Pakistan's Rehman Malik said his government is thankful to Britain and the UAE for their "strong support to Malala and to Pakistan." Malik said the attack on Malala was "meant to tarnish the true face of Pakistan and to discourage those struggling for human liberties and for the democratization of our society." The Pakistani interior minister said "such acts of cowardice will not deter us, and the whole Pakistani nation stands behind Malala and her cause." He noted that "we will do whatever possible to take Pakistan on the path of peace and moderation, as envisioned by our founding fathers."
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Rehana Haleem, who lives in Pakistan's Swat Valley, told CNN her brother has brought shame to their family. She said police raided her home and arrested everyone, demanding to know where her brother was hiding. "We have lost everything after what he did," she said. That brother, 23-year-old Attah Ullah Khan, is the prime suspect in the attack on 15-year old Malala Yousufzai, the young girl who fought for girls' education in Pakistan.
Haleem told CNN she believes her brother is guilty, and that he disappeared just after the attack happened. She also said she's sorry for the pain her brother inflicted on the young girl. "What he did was intolerable," Haleem told CNN. "Malala is just like my sister. I'd like to express my concern for Malala on behalf of my whole family; I hope she recovers soon and returns to a happy and normal life as soon as possible. I hope Malala doesn't consider me or my family as enemies. I don't consider Atta Ullah my brother anymore."
Yousufzai and two classmates were shot nearly a month ago while on their way home from school after receiving threats from the Taliban for years. Yousafzai was a strong advocate for girls' education -- something the Taliban disapprove of. While Yousafzai recovers in a British hospital, the Pakistani government has announced her two classmates will receive stars of courage, one of the highest awards anyone can receive in Pakistan. One of those classmates is already back at school, and says despite being attacked, she's determined to continue her education.
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She wants me to tell everyone how grateful she is and is amazed that men, women and children from across the world are interested in her well-being, her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, said on behalf of the 15-year-old. We deeply feel the heart-touching good wishes of the people across the world of all caste, color and creed, he said in a statement issued by the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, where Malala is being treated. I am awfully thankful to all the peace-loving well-wishers who strongly condemn the assassination attempt on Malala, who pray for her health and support the grand cause of peace, education, freedom of thought and freedom of expression, he said. The hospital yesterday published photographs of Malala sitting and reading a book, while others showed her poring over get-well cards.
Armed men in Mingora, the main town in the Swat valley, shot Malala in the head and shoulder on Oct. 9 after stopping the school bus on which she was traveling. The attack was claimed by the insurgent Taliban Movement of Pakistan. They claimed to have targeted Malala because of her pioneering role in calling for girls education and because of her general criticism of the Taliban. The teenager was transferred to the British hospital on Oct.15. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Britons yesterday called on the government to nominate Malala for the Nobel Peace Prize.
A campaign led by a Pakistani-British woman urged British Prime Minister David Cameron and other senior government officials to nominate the teen for the Nobel Peace Prize. Malala doesnt just represent one young woman, she speaks out for all those who are denied an education purely on the basis of their gender, campaign leader Shahida Choudhary said in a statement issued by global petition platform Change.org. More than 30,000 people have signed the petition in Britain as part of a global push by womens rights advocates to nominate her for the prize. Similar campaigns have sprung up in Canada, France and Spain. Under the Nobel Committees rules, only prominent figures such as members of national assemblies and governments are able to make nominations.
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The voice, the shots, the blood. Her friend Malala slumped over. Shazia Ramazan , 13, who was wounded by the same Taliban gunman who shot her friend Malala Yousufzai, returned home last week after a month in a hospital , where she had to relearn how to use her left arm. Memories of the bullets that ripped into her remain, but she is welcoming the future.
"For a long time it seemed fear was in my heart. I couldn't stop it," she said. "But now I am not afraid," she added, self-consciously rubbing her left hand where a bullet pierced straight through just below the thumb. Now Shazia and her friend Kainat Riaz, who was also shot, return to school for the first time since the October 8 attack when a Taliban gunman opened fire on Malala outside the Khushal School for Girls, wounding Shazia and Kainat as well.
The Taliban targeted Malala because of her outspoken and relentless objection to the group's regressive interpretation of Islam that keeps women at home and bars girls from school.
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The fund is named for Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot and wounded by the Pakistani Taliban in October for speaking out against the militant group and in favor of the right of girls' to attend school. She is recovering in a British hospital. On Monday in Paris, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari announced his country will donate the first $10 million to the initiative. He said, "since our government has come to office, we've done all possible for the women of Pakistan, and we stand committed to the women of the world and Pakistan, for gender equality, for schools, for colleges, for equal opportunity for jobs."
The director-general of the UNESCO, Irina Bokova, said 32 million girls around the world are not enrolled in primary school, and a similar number are not in secondary school. She said girls' education is a "basic right" and a "lever for development that profits the whole of society, girls and boys, men and women." Former British Prime Minister and U.N. Special envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown said the United Nations is more determined than ever that the Millennium Development Goal of every boy and girl enrolled in school will be met. Brown also said that Malala's father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, will be named a U.N. special advisor for global education to help accomplish the goal.
When asked about the new role, Ziauddin's friend, Attaur Rehman Atta, told VOA's Deewa Radio that "he [Ziauddin] has made great efforts for education in the region and in literature as well." Atta said Malala's father "will do justice with his new assignment." A local Pakistani peace council member, Fazle Maula, told Deewa Radio that Ziauddin Yousafzai's appointment is a "matter of pride" especially for the people of Pakistan's northwestern Swat Valley. Maula noted that based on his "expertise in education at the grassroots level and his wish to work for education, he is the best candidate for the job."
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Malala Yousafzai, 15, is being treated at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEHB) after being transferred after the attack in October. She will have cranial reconstruction surgery in late January or early February, the hospital's trust said. Medical director Dr Dave Rosser said: "Malala has continued to make great progress in her treatment."
The Taliban has said it shot Malala, a campaigner for girls' education, for "promoting secularism". Doctors said the bullet grazed the teenager's brain when it struck her just above her left eye in the incident in the Swat Valley.
Dr Rosser, of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, said: "A number of QEHB's multi-specialist doctors have been working alongside colleagues from Birmingham Children's Hospital to treat her. "The medical team has included clinicians from neurosurgery, imaging, trauma and therapies."
Malala's father Ziaududdin Yousafzai has been given a job at the Consulate of Pakistan in Birmingham. He has been appointed education attache at the Consulate of Pakistan in the city for at the least three years, the Pakistan government said on Wednesday.
BBC News - Malala Yousafzai to have cranial surgery in Birmingham
Surgeons at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital have been giving details about two procedures due to be carried out on the 15-year-old. Malala was discharged from the hospital earlier this month after being shot in the head by the Taliban in October. The hospital said the surgery would take place in the next 10 days. The first procedure will involve drilling into her skull and inserting a custom-made metal plate. Doctors said Malala had been left completely deaf in her left ear when she was shot at point-blank range.
'Remarkable recovery'
The shockwave destroyed her eardrum and the bones for hearing. The second procedure will involve fitting a small electronic device that provides a sense of sound to someone who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing. Dr Dave Rosser, medical director at the QEHB, said: "Her recovery is remarkable and it's a testament to her strength and desire to get better. "There is no doubt that the surgery she underwent in Pakistan was life saving. "Had that surgery not been of such a high standard she would have died."
The red line in this 3D image of the cranial reconstruction surgery planned for Malala shows the approximate journey of the bullet that shattered her skull
He added each procedure should take about 90 minutes and her full recovery could take another 15 to 18 months. Dr Rosser said the missing part of Malala's skull had been put in her abdomen by surgeons in Pakistan, in order to "keep the bone alive". Doctors in Birmingham have chosen to use a metal plate to repair her skull instead of that bone, which they say may have shrunk. Dr Rosser added this was common practice worldwide to keep the bone healthy. He said: "Malala currently has no skull, she only has skin covering the brain."
'Unique' hospital
Malala has asked to keep the bone once it has been removed, said Dr Rosser. The QEHB is home to the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine where members of the armed service who have been injured overseas are treated. Dr Rosser said the hospital was "unique" because all the treatment Malala required could be done within the same organisation.
Stefan Edmondson, principal maxillofacial prosthetist, at the QEHB said: "What we're doing here could be done elsewhere but because we're such a large super-regional unit with a large neurological unit we see a lot more advanced cranial defects. "We're fortunate in that aspect to see a lot more complicated cases and [it means] we have the software here."
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This years award will be announced in early October, but speculation was already underway as the deadline for nominations ran out on February 1. Fifteen-year-old Malala was shot by Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) gunmen at point blank range as she travelled on a bus to school on October 9, targeted for promoting girls education. She has since become an internationally recognised symbol of opposition to the Talibans drive to deny women education, and against religious extremism. A prize to Malala would not only be timely and fitting with a line of awards to champions of human rights and democracy, but also would set both children and education on the peace and conflict agenda, said the head of the Peace Research Institute of Oslo, Kristian Berg Harpviken.
Others known to have been nominated are human rights activists whose names have been mentioned in previous years, including Belarussian human rights activist Ales Belyatski currently behind bars and Russias Lyudmila Alexeyeva. Belarus, which former US President George W. Bushs administration qualified as the the last dictatorship in Europe, is governed by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has cracked down even further on opponents of late, rights groups charge. In neighbouring Russia, authorities unleashed the worst political crackdown in Russias post-Soviet history, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).
In this undated file photo provided by Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, Malala reads a book as she continues her recovery at the hospital. Doctors said on January 30, 2013, that Yousufzai is headed toward a full recovery once she undergoes a final surgery to reconstruct her skull.
Trying to predict who will win the Nobel Peace Prize is a difficult task, complicated by the fact that the list of nominees each year is kept secret for 50 years. But thousands of people are eligible to nominate candidates including former laureates, members of parliament and government around the world, some university professors, and members of certain international organisations and they are allowed to reveal the names they have put forward. As a result, it is known that French, Canadian and Norwegian MPs have all separately nominated Malala.
Beliatskys and Alexeyevas names have meanwhile been put forward by two Norwegian lawmakers. They have both defied authoritarian state structures and the illegal and illegitimate abuse of power, one of the two MPs, Jan Tore Sanner, said. The Norwegian Nobel Committee is quick to point out that a nomination should not be interpreted as any kind of recognition on its behalf. In the past, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, and even Michael Jackson have all been nominated.
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As Malala's name figured in the list, women world over wanted the Pakistani schoolgirl-turned-icon to win the award. She is not only a symbol of resistance against Taliban rule, but a brave person who fought against all odds to help bring education to poor and deprived Muslim girls in Pakistan. Female education in Pakistan is in abysmal condition. Poor rate of female education in Pakistan and role of Malala
According to a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) report, Pakistan finds itself in the bottom 10 of new country rankings for the education of poor females. "Almost two-thirds of Pakistan's poor girls have never been to school," said Unesco's Education for All Global Monitoring Report (EFAGMR) director Pauline Rose in a press release. "Without a real step change by the government ... they will be denied equal opportunities in work and life forever," she added.
On the occasion of Malala Day, which was celebrated Nov 10, 2012, Rose said, "As we stand together on Malala Day', it is vital to stand up for what she believes in, and highlight difficulties many poor girls and young women face in getting to school." UN announced November 10 to be celebrated as Malala Day in honour of the brave girl and the cause she espouses.
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The 15-year-old education activist Malala defied the diktat of the Taliban in Pakistan's serene and picturesque town of Mingora in the Swat valley and campaigned for education rights for girls. Because of her work to promote girls' education, Taliban attempted to assassinate the teenager. Malala was shot in the head and neck by the Taliban for demanding education for women in her home country on October 9, 2012.
Taliban wanted to kill her, as Malala was promoting education and women's rights in the Swat Valley. In Swat Valley, Taliban holds control and banned girls from attending school. Malala was shot by Taliban militants while she was coming back in her school bus. Her condition was critical and remained in unconscious state after the attack. Later on she was sent to a hospital in the United Kingdom for intensive rehabilitation.
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BBC said:BBC: Malala Yousafzai recovering after operations
A Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban has undergone surgery in Birmingham.
Malala Yousafzai, 15, was attacked in October after campaigning for girls' rights to education.
A bullet was removed from her head by surgeons in Pakistan, before she was flown to the UK for further treatment.
Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital said a titanium plate and cochlear implant were successfully attached in two operations on Saturday.
A spokesperson said she was continuing to recover and was in a stable condition after the surgery, which lasted five hours.
They said the medical team was "very pleased" with the progress Malala had made so far and that she was awake and talking to staff and members of her family.
Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital said doctors for 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai, who was targeted for advocating girls' education, were "very pleased" with her progress after five hours of skull reconstruction and ear surgery on Saturday. "She is awake and talking to staff and members of her family," the hospital said in a statement, adding that she would continue to recover in the hospital until she is well enough to be discharged.
The teenager drew the world's attention when she was shot by Taliban militants on Oct. 9 on her way home on a school bus in northwestern Pakistan. The Islamist group said they targeted her because she promoted girls' education and "Western thinking" and criticized the militant group's behavior when it took over the scenic Swat Valley where she lived.
At age 11, Malala began to write a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC about life under the Taliban in the Swat Valley. After Pakistan's military ousted the militants in 2009, she began publicly speaking out about the need for girls' education. She appeared frequently in the media and was given one of the country's highest civilian honors for her bravery. The shooting sparked outrage in Pakistan and around the world, and her story has captured global attention for the struggle for women's rights in Pakistan. In a sign of her reach, the teen made the shortlist for Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2012.
Malala was airlifted to Britain from Pakistan in October to receive specialized medical care and protection against further Taliban threats. She is expected to remain in the U.K. for some time after her father, Ziauddin, was given a diplomatic post based in the English city of Birmingham. So far, doctors say she has made very good progress. She was able to stand, write and return home, and doctors said they have seen minimum signs of brain damage.
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The Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban has spoken out about her recovery for the first time since she was nearly killed.
Speaking shortly after Queen Elizabeth Hospital revealed they had successfully operated to reconstruct her skull and restore her hearing, 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai said she was "feeling alright" and "happy that both the operations were successful".
She said: "I can also walk a little bit, I can talk and I'm feeling better."
"It does not feel like I had a very big operation," she added - despite undergoing five hours of surgery.
Malala says
"I'm feeling alright and I am happy that the operations, both the operations are successful and you know, it was that kind of successful that now they have removed everything from me and I can also walk a little bit, I can talk and I'm feeling better and it doesn't seem that I had a very big operation, it seems that just a little bit anaesthetic injection just for five hours and then I wake up."
Consultant says
"Yes, but it was five hours, it was not a small procedure but you look remarkably good for it"
Malala says
"But it was very nice because there is no drainage system and I think everything is fine, it's better."
Consultant -
"Good"
Malala
"Yeh"
Consultant -
"and what are you looking forward to next?"
Malala
"I think that I will just get better very soon and there will be no problem, I would hear after one month, in this ear, I hope and the thing is that my mission is the same, to help people and I will do that."
Consultant -
"Yes and what do you think of your treatment so far then, can you remember that?"
Malala -
"If I try to speak about my whole treatment, it started in Pakistan and they did a very successful and a very good operation of me and God gave me a new life because of the prayers of people and because of the talent of doctors.
Here in Birmingham in Queen Elizabeth Hospital, here they did the operation of my nerves so after four or five months my left hand side of the face would work, Insha' Allah.
They took care, a lot of care of me, intensive care and I think I'm inspired from the doctors and nurses - they are like my mother and father because for ten days my mother and father were not with me but I had a lot of doctors and nurses who took care of me as if they were my parents."
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The 15-year-old was shot on a school bus in Pakistan in October. She has now recovered following treatment at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital. She described starting at the city's Edgbaston High School for Girls as "the most important day" of her life.
She said: "I think it is the happiest moment that I'm going back to school, this is what I dreamed, that all children should be able to go to school because it is their basic right. "I am so proud to wear the uniform because it proves I am a student and that I am living my life and learning." Malala is in year nine and will start her GCSE curriculum next year. She said she was looking forward to learning about politics and law.
'Normal teenager'
Headmistress Dr Ruth Weekes said she believed Malala needed the stability of being at school. She said: "She wants to be a normal teenage girl and to have the support of other girls around. "Talking to her, I know that's something she missed during her time in hospital." Malala is staying in the UK after her father Ziauddin Yousafzai was appointed education attaché at the Pakistan consulate in Birmingham. Surgeons in Pakistan removed a bullet from Malala's head after she was shot returning home from school in the Swat valley on 9 October.
She was flown to Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital for specialist treatment. The teenager had a titanium plate and cochlear implant fitted and was discharged from the hospital in February to continue her rehabilitation. The Taliban in Pakistan has threatened the lives of both Mr Yousafzai and Malala since the shooting. She has received support from around the world, with tens of thousands of people signing an online petition calling for her to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
BBC News - Malala Yousafzai attends first day at Edgbaston High School in Birmingham
Malala, 15, who campaigns for girls' education, says the memoir is her own story and that of millions of others denied the chance to go to school. She was shot by a Taliban gunman in her home region of Swat. She and her family now live in the British city of Birmingham where she has been receiving treatment. The book, titled I am Malala, is scheduled for publication in the autumn.
'Basic right'
"I hope the book will reach people around the world, so they realise how difficult it is for some children to get access to education," she said. "I want to tell my story, but it will also be the story of 61 million children who can't get education. "I want it to be part of the campaign to give every boy and girl the right to go to school. It is their basic right." Publishers Weidenfeld and Nicolson say that her memoir will tell what happened on the day she was shot "and the inspiring story of her determination not be intimidated by extremists".
It will also be about the schoolgirl's family, who "gave her remarkable courage". Malala writes in the memoir that Tuesday 9 October 2012 was "not the best of days as it was the middle of school exams - though as a bookish girl I don't mind them as much as my friends do". At the time of the attack she was "squashed between friends and teachers on the benches of the open-back truck used as a school bus". The gunman walked onto the vehicle and shot her in the face at point-blank range.
Since the shooting and her recovery after treatment in Pakistan and the UK, Malala has received numerous peace awards around the world. Her father has been appointed a UN educational advisor, and 12 July has been designated by the United Nations as Malala Day. The Malala Fund, set up on behalf of her and her family, is dedicated to the education and empowerment of girls in Pakistan and around the world.
BBC News - Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai to publish a book
