09 Oct 2012
Taliban
has claimed responsibility for attacking Pakistan’s youngest peace
activist Malala Yousufzai for propagating anti-Taliban secular thoughts
among the youth, Pakistan media reported.
Yousufzai was attacked on Tuesday when she was returning home after school. She suffered bullet wounds to her neck and head. One of Yousufzai’s school friends was also injured in the attack.
According to the Dawn newspaper her injuries were not life threatening and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has ordered her to be transferred to a hospital in Peshawar.
In 2011 she was awarded the national Peace prize for being an inspiration to her friends by standing up against repression as her namesake did in Afghanistan in the 19th century.
She became a voice of the young girls for maintaining a diary on BBC website. Just after she won the prize, the Taliban commanders threatened to assassinate her.
“I want to use the award for the benefit of all the children, who work in homes and for the children in the streets, who are denied their right to education,” she said, explaining how the award had encouraged her to make a difference.
She became the first Pakistani girl to be nominated for the International Children Peace Award when she spoke about the people of Swat and voiced their suffering during the dark times of the Taliban in a diary for BBC.
Yousufzai was attacked on Tuesday when she was returning home after school. She suffered bullet wounds to her neck and head. One of Yousufzai’s school friends was also injured in the attack.
According to the Dawn newspaper her injuries were not life threatening and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has ordered her to be transferred to a hospital in Peshawar.
In 2011 she was awarded the national Peace prize for being an inspiration to her friends by standing up against repression as her namesake did in Afghanistan in the 19th century.
She became a voice of the young girls for maintaining a diary on BBC website. Just after she won the prize, the Taliban commanders threatened to assassinate her.
“I want to use the award for the benefit of all the children, who work in homes and for the children in the streets, who are denied their right to education,” she said, explaining how the award had encouraged her to make a difference.
She became the first Pakistani girl to be nominated for the International Children Peace Award when she spoke about the people of Swat and voiced their suffering during the dark times of the Taliban in a diary for BBC.
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