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- I 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. I am the daughter of Ziauddin and Tor Pekai Yousafzai I have two younger brothers.
- My father was a school teacher. He started his own school and taught all the children in the neighborhood including the girls.
- At this time, a terrorist group called the Taliban was growing powerful in Swat Valley. They imposed a ban on girls attending school.
- Women should not be involved in social, political, or economic activities and girls don’t need any form of education other than religious education
- WHICH ONE OF YOU IS MALALA!!?
- A BBC Urdu journalist Abu Hai Kakar approached my father with a unique proposal asking that one of his student to write an anonymous blog about the Taliban in Swat Valley. My father asked if I would be interested and I agreed. I wrote about what I saw, felt, and feared about living under the Taliban rule. The BBC gave me a pen name, Gul Makai, under which I wrote my blog
- When I woke again the next day, I noticed I was in a strange green room with no windows and very bright lights. It was an intensive care cubicle in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
- I didn't get a chance to answer their question Who is Malala? ...The sounds in my head were not the crack, crack, crack of three bullets but the chop, chop, chop, drip, drip, drip of the man severing the heads of chickens...
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