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Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, the

largest city in the Swat Valley in what is now the Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. She is the daughter of
Ziauddin and Tor Pekai Yousafzai and has two younger
brothers. At a very young age, Malala developed a thirst for
knowledge. She misses all the trophies on her shelves not just
because it's a trophy but because they are "reminders to her of
the life she loved and the girl she was before she left her
home." Malala in her old house always heard kids playing but
now in England she lives in a sturdy brick damp chilly
house with no children .
Shot
In 2008 Yousafzai gave her first speech. It was called “How
Dare the Taliban Take Away My Basic Right to Education?” It
was publicized all over Pakistan. Then, using a pen name,
Yousafzai began writing about her daily life living under the
Taliban. The articles were published on a blog for the British
Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The BBC blog was read by
many people.
In 2009 Yousafzai was featured in two documentaries about the
school shutdown and her experiences. The short films were
posted on The New York Times’s website. That same year the
Taliban changed its rules and allowed girls to return to school
On 9 October 2012, while on a bus in the Swat District, after

taking an exam, Yousafzai and two other girls were shot by
a Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan gunman in an assassination attempt
in retaliation for her activism; the gunman fled the scene.
Yousafzai was hit in the head with a bullet and remained
unconscious and in critical condition at the Rawalpindi Institute
of Cardiology, but her condition later improved enough for her
to be transferred to the Queen Elizabeth
Hospital in Birmingham, UK. The attempt on her life sparked an
international outpouring of support for her. Deutsche
Welle reported in January 2013 that she may have become "the
most famous teenager in the world". Weeks after the attempted
murder, a group of 50 leading Muslim clerics in Pakistan issued
a fatwā against those who tried to kill her. Tehrik-i-Taliban
Pakistan were internationally denounced by governments,
human rights organizations and feminist groups. Tehrik-i-
Taliban Pakistan officials responded to condemnation by further
denouncing Yousafzai, indicating plans for a possible second
assassination attempt, which they felt was justified as a
religious obligation. Their statements resulted in further
international condemnation. After the shooting, emergency
surgeons in Peshawar removed her left temporal skull
bone to create space for her brain to swell. Their quick
action saved her life, but soon her organs began to fail. She
was airlifted first to the capital
After life in UN
Nine years after she was shot by the Taliban, Nobel Peace Prize
winner Malala Yousafzai watched in horror as the terrorist
group seized power in Afghanistan. "I watched as province
after province fell to men with guns, loaded with bullets like the
one that shot me," the 24-year-old said in a post published on
Podium, once again emphasising on the need to draw global
attention to the plight of civilians in the country.
The 20-year-old, who will be attending Oxford University,
spoke to UN News about the need to increase investment
in education, the importance of allowing girls to be who
they want to be, and when it was that she discovered the
power of her own voice and the purpose for her life.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres designated education
activist and Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai as a UN
Messenger of Peace with a special focus on girls’ education.
Ms. Yousafzai began speaking out for girls’ education at the
age of 11 in her native Pakistan. After surviving an
assassination attempt by the Taliban in 2012, she co-founded
the Malala Fund with her father Ziauddin to champion every
girl’s right to 12 years of free, safe, quality education.
Mom And Dad

Dad
Ziauddin Yousafzai is a Pakistani education activist best known
as the father of Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, who protested
against the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan opposition to the
education rights of girls, especially for Pakistani girls.
Mom
Toor Pekai Yousafzai's daughter has become one of the
most famous teenagers in the world over the past four
years
About the book she wrote

I AM MALALA is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by
global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who,
himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his
daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who
have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes
sons.
Malala life’s conclusion

Malala Yousafzai became an international symbol of the fight for
girls’ education after she was shot in 2012 for opposing Taliban
restrictions on female education in her home country of Pakistan.
In 2009, Malala had begun writing a blog under a pseudonym
about the increasing military activity in her home town and about
fears that her school would be attacked. After her identity was
revealed, Malala and her father Ziauddin continued to speak out
for the right to education.
The Taliban’s attack on Malala on 9 October 2012 as she was

returning home from school with her friends received worldwide
condemnation. In Pakistan, over 2 million people signed a right to
education petition, and the National Assembly ratified Pakistan's
first Right to Free and Compulsory Education Bill.
In 2013, Malala and her father co-founded the Malala Fund to

bring awareness to the social and economic impact of girls'
education and to empower girls to demand change. In December
2014, she became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Secretary-General António Guterres designated Malala as a
United Nations Messenger of Peace in 2017 to help raise
awareness of the importance of girl’s education.

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Childhood

Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, the

On 9 October 2012, while on a bus in the Swat District, after

Mom And Dad

About the book she wrote

Malala life’s conclusion

The Taliban’s attack on Malala on 9 October 2012 as she was

In 2013, Malala and her father co-founded the Malala Fund to

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