I am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban
‘This is how these militants work. They want to win the hearts and minds of the people so they first see what the local problems ...
school tomorrow.’ When my father asked why, he explained it was his village’s turn to work on Fazlullah’s buildings. ‘Your prime ...
told my father. The punishments decreed by Fazlullah’s shura included public whippings, which we had never seen before. One of m ...
shame. You must wear burqas.’ When we arrived back at school after Eid, we saw a letter taped to the gate. ‘Sir, the school you ...
10 Toffees, Tennis Balls and the Buddhas of Swat FIRST THE TALIBAN took our music, then our Buddhas, then our history. One of ou ...
the force. All this happened and nobody did a thing. It was as though everyone was in a trance. My father said people had been s ...
began to worry the militants could take over the capital. It was almost unbelievable – Islamabad is usually a quiet, orderly pla ...
as sending a message of hope and strength to the rest of the world. She was also our only political leader to speak out against ...
quickly the Taliban controlled most of Swat outside Mingora. On 12 November Musharraf ordered 10,000 more troops into our valley ...
We used to have Islamic studies teachers – qari sahibs – who came to our home to teach the Quran to me and other local children. ...
11 The Clever Class IT WAS SCHOOL that kept me going in those dark days. When I was in the street it felt as though every man I ...
those days was the army and the Taliban and the feeling that we were caught between the two. Attiya used to tease me by saying, ...
When he met his fellow activists, particularly his old friends Ahmad Shah, Mohammad Farooq and Zahid Khan, I often went with him ...
not, their parents won’t allow it. I have a father who isn’t scared, who stands by me. He said, ‘You are a child and it’s your r ...
school has been there since the 1960s and never converted anyone to Christianity – in fact some of them converted to Islam. And ...
there would be lines of people waiting to fill jugs, bottles and drums. One of the neighbours got frightened. ‘What are you doin ...
12 The Bloody Square THE BODIES WOULD be dumped in the square at night so that everyone would see them the next morning on their ...
heard about such as policemen beheaded, their heads paraded through the town. Even those who had defended Fazlullah at the start ...
the Taliban were non-governmental organisations or NGOs, which they said were anti-Islam. When the NGOs received threatening let ...
13 The Diary of Gul Makai IT WAS DURING one of those dark days that my father received a call from his friend Abdul Hai Kakar, a ...
«
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
»
Free download pdf