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Girl shot by Taliban starts school in England Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education, began her first day of classes on March 19 at a school in Birmingham, England.
March 19, 2013
In this handout photo, Malala Yousafzai enters Edgbaston High School for Girls in Birmingham, England, for her first day of classes. The 15-year-old Pakistani girl was shot in the head by a Taliban on Oct. 9 for campaigning for girls’ education.
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Jan. 3, 2013
Malala waves as she is flanked by staff members at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England.
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Jan. 3, 2013
Malala says goodbye as she is discharged from the hospital to which she had been transferred for specialized treatment.
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Dec. 8, 2012
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, left, and his daughter Asifa Bhutto, center back, meet with Malala at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Malala’s shooting triggered outrage in Pakistan and around the globe.
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Nov. 7, 2012
Malala reads a book at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Before being shot, Malala wrote a blog campaigning for girls’ education in Pakistan. Her blog is what is believed to have caused the Taliban to target her. When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, the Islamists closed girls’ schools there.
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Nov. 7, 2012
Malala, left, talks with her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Yousafzai in January 2013 was given a diplomatic post in Britain so that he could be close to his daughter.
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Oct. 26, 2012
Malala sits up in her hospital bed with her father and two younger brothers, Atal Khan, right, and Khushal Khan, center.
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Oct. 19, 2012
Doctors say they expect Malala could make “pretty much a full recovery” after standing up with help for the first time. The teen was reportedly “communicating by writing notes” and wished to thank people around the world for their support.
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Oct. 12, 2012
Pakistani children in Karachi place oil lamps next to a photograph of Malala.
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Oct. 16, 2012
Pakistani students in Lahore carry placards with photographs of Malala during a protest against the assassination attempt by the Taliban.
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Oct. 15, 2012
A plane carrying Malala lands at Birmingham Airport in England. She is in England to receive specialized medical care.
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March 26, 2009
Malala, who was 12 when this picture was taken in 2009, says she wants to become a politician. She was relieved that schools in Pakistan had reopened after her shooting but scared that Taliban militants would forbid any schooling for girls after the fourth grade.
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March 26, 2009
Malala lives in the Swat Valley with her family in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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March 29, 2009
Malala was shot while riding a school bus in Mingora. Her case won worldwide recognition, and the teen became a symbol for the struggle for women’s rights in Pakistan. In an indication of her reach, she made the shortlist for Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2012.
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Dec. 20, 2011
In 2011, Malala received the National Youth Peace Prize from then-Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in Islamabad. Pakistan gave her the country’s first-ever youth peace award in recognition of her advocacy for girls’ education, which the Taliban had banned after seizing control of the Swat Valley.
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Oct. 9, 2012
The wounded Malala is moved to a helicopter to be taken from in Mingora, in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, to a military hospital in Peshawar for treatment.
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Oct. 9, 2012
Malala won acclaim for speaking out for girls denied education under the Taliban.
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Oct. 9, 2012
Malala is moved to a helicopter. The teen became known in early 2009, when she wrote a diary about Taliban atrocities under a pen name for the BBC’s Urdu service.
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Oct. 9, 2012
Hospital staff members assist Malala, who was nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize in 2011, outside the Saidu Sharif Teaching Hospital in Mingora, Pakistan.
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Oct. 9, 2012
Hospital staff members tend to Malala in Mingora, Pakistan. Ihsanullah Ihsan, chief spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, said in calls to the media that the militant group targeted the girl because she generated “negative propaganda” about Muslims.
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Oct. 9, 2012
Pakistani army doctors treat Malala in Peshawar, Pakistan. Political leaders in the country condemned the attack.
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March 8, 2012
In her diary, Malala wrote about her fears and growing Taliban influence. One morning, she wore her favorite pink dress. “During the morning assembly we were told not to wear colorful clothes as the Taliban would object to it,” she said.
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