I am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban
I wrote a lot about school as that was at the centre of our lives. I loved my royal-blue school uniform but we were advised to w ...
with him in case he was targeted by the Taliban. As he and my father drove back, Dr Afzal nervously asked him, ‘What names shall ...
date was announced for the start of next term. Even so, some teachers still gave us homework. In the yard I hugged all my friend ...
My mother used to tell me to hide my face when I spoke to the media because at my age I should be in purdah and she was afraid f ...
14 A Funny Kind of Peace WHEN MY BROTHERS’ schools reopened after the winter break, Khushal said he would rather stay at home li ...
fighting. The Taliban agreed to a ten-day truce and, as a peace gesture, released a Chinese telephone engineer who they had kidn ...
sat there in our famous mosque, Tabligh Markaz, like the master of our land. He was the guarantor that the Taliban would lay dow ...
kings in one land. Who is in charge here – the government or Fazlullah?’ But we still believed in peace. Everyone was looking fo ...
does it matter? I wondered. The point is we are a Taliban state. My father was again busy speaking at seminars on our troubles w ...
15 Leaving the Valley LEAVING THE VALLEY was harder than anything I had done before. I remembered the tapa my grandmother used t ...
we left them with a lot of water and corn. She also said I must leave my school bag because there was so little room. I was horr ...
and harassing the women. Those who could, stayed in the homes of local people or with family and friends. Amazingly three- quart ...
second day we were late. I was shocked when the teacher hit my hand with a stick to punish me, but then decided that at least it ...
heard Moniba was also in Abbottabad, as was one of our teachers and another friend. Moniba and I had not spoken since our fight ...
PART THREE Three Girls, Three Bullets Sir de pa lowara tega kegda Praday watan de paki nishta balakhtona O Wayfarer! Rest your h ...
16 The Valley of Sorrows IT ALL SEEMED like a bad dream. We had been away from our valley for almost three months and as we drov ...
gold in a bank vault for safekeeping and even that had been looted. My father was anxious to check on the school. I went with hi ...
My father’s friend Ahmad Shah called it a ‘controlled peace, not a durable peace’. But gradually people returned to the valley b ...
office. Our eyes widened when we saw that the army headquarters was so much neater than the rest of the city with perfect green ...
of the army operation to expel the Taliban that we had all had to leave and found ourselves in this situation now. So Madam Mary ...
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