The girl who changed Pakistan

Shehrbano Taseer takes an insider’s look at the 15-year-old girl who may finally turn the tide on extremism

The girl who changed Pakistan

THE teenage girls chatted to each other as the school bus rattled along the country road. Students from a girls’ high school in Swat, they had just finished a term paper, and their joy was evident as they broke into another Pashto song. About a mile outside the city of Mingora, two men flagged down and boarded the bus, one of them pulling out a gun.

“Which one of you is Malala Yousafzai?” he demanded. No one spoke — some out of loyalty, others out of fear. But, unconsciously, their eyes turned to Malala.

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