Girl shot for anti-Taliban views – Mail and Guardian

Name: Girl shot for anti-Taliban views – Mail and Guardian

Name of publication: Mail and Guardian

Name of journalist: Jon Boone

Date: 12 October 2012

Country: Pakistan

Theme: Human rights, education, gender equality

Skills: Perspective

Genre: News

Gem classification: Gender blind

Description: The Taliban attempt to kill a 14 – year-old girl, famous for speaking out against the Islamic militants and their attacks on girls’ education, has triggered a wave of revulsion in Pakistan. Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head and neck while she sat with classmates on a school bus as it prepared to drive students home after morning class in Mingora, a city in the Swat valley where the army mounted major operation in 2009 to crush a Taliban insurgency.

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