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  • 15
    Oct
    2012
    2:33pm, EDT

    Girl shot by Taliban arrives in England for medical care

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    The plane carrying 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani girl shot in the head by Taliban gunmen for campaigning for the right to an education, sits on the tarmac after landing at Birmingham Airport in Birmingham, central England on Oct. 15. Yousufzai will be cared for at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, a highly specialized facility where British soldiers seriously wounded in Afghanistan are treated, a spokeswoman for Prime Minister David Cameron said.

    By NBC News and wire reports

    The 15-year-old Pakistani girl shot and critically wounded by the Taliban for promoting education for girls and criticizing the militant group traveled to Britain on Monday for further medical treatment, officials said.

    British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Malala Yousufzai would receive specialized care in a hospital in the country’s National Health Service system.

    "Last week's barbaric attack on Malala Yousufzai and her school friends shocked Pakistan and the world.  Malala's bravery in standing up for the right of all young girls in Pakistan to an education is an example to us all,” Hague said in a statement. Continue reading.

    Pakistanis light candles in front of a banner showing a picture of 15-year-old schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, who was shot last Tuesday by the Taliban for speaking out in support of education for women, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Oct. 15. The banner reads,

    Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

    Candles are lit in front of a portrait of Pakistani school girl Malala Yousufzai during a candlelight vigil organized by Nepalese Youth in Kathmandu on Oct. 15.

    Slideshow: Schoolgirl attacked by Taliban in Pakistan

    Shakil Adil / AP

    Fifteen-year-old Malala Yousufzai was shot by the Taliban on Tuesday for speaking out against the militants and promoting education for girls. Doctors reported Saturday Yousufzai moved her hands and feet.

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    Attacked, brutally shot, nearly killed by you muslim bastards! When will the world awake to the hate and killing of islam?

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  • 11
    Oct
    2012
    4:32pm, EDT

    'I am Malala' declare protesters as vigils continue for 15-year-old Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban

    Shakil Adil / AP

    Pakistanis hold candles during a protest to condemn the attack on Malala Yousufzai in Karachi, Pakistan, on Oct. 11.

    Aamir Qureshi / AFP - Getty Images

    A woman lights a candle during a vigil for Malala Yousafzai in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Oct. 11.

    Pakistanis across the country continued vigils Thursday to pray for a 15-year-old girl who was shot by a Taliban gunman after daring to advocate education for girls and criticize the militant group. Malala Yousufzai, 15, was unconscious Thursday in critical condition after being shot in the head and neck as she left school on Tuesday, but doctors said she had moved her arms and legs slightly the night before. Full Story

     

    T. Mughal / EPA

    A child holds a portrait of Malala Yousafzai during a vigil to pray for her recovery in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Oct. 11.

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    Slideshow: Pakistan: A nation in turmoil

    Arshad Arbab / EPA

    Images of daily life, political pursuits, religious rites and deadly violence.

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    6 comments

    Can you just imagine if the women in the world Stood UP and said enough! It would be amazing! A day a week a month...what ever, every single woman could march in their cities and towns...just stand up and stop this madness...we should support our sisters and their children from the people that try a …

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  • 10
    Oct
    2012
    2:04pm, EDT

    Standing up for Pakistani school girl shot by Taliban

     

    S.S Mirza / AFP - Getty Images

    Pakistani school girls pray for the recovery of gunshot victim, Malala Yousufzai, in Multan on Oct. 10. Pakistani doctors removed a bullet from a 15-year-old child campaigner shot by the Taliban in a horrific attack condemned by national leaders and rights activists. The attack took place in Mingora, the main town of the Swat Valley in Pakistan's northwest, where Malala had campaigned for the right to an education during a two-year Taliban insurgency which the army said it had crushed in 2009.

    By Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC News

    As a shocked Pakistan prayed for her recovery, Malala Yousufzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban for writing a blog about daily life in the war-torn Swat Valley, was still in a critical condition Wednesday after surgery to remove a bullet, her surgeon told NBC News.

    The shooting drew a huge outpouring of reaction across Pakistan. The front pages of national newspapers carried pictures of a bandaged and bloody Yousufzai being brought to hospital.  "Hate targets hope" the Express Tribune said in a headline.

    Pakistan's president, prime minister, and heads of various opposition parties joined human rights group Amnesty International and the United Nations in condemning the attack.

    "Pakistan's future belongs to Malala and brave young girls like her. History won't remember the cowards who tried to kill her at school," Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said on Twitter.

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    Aamir Qureshi / AFP - Getty Images

    Pakistani civil society activists carry placards and papers with a photograph of the gunshot victim Malala Yousufzai during a protest rally against the assassination attempt, in Islamabad on Oct. 10.

    Rahat Dar / EPA

    Pakistani people hold placards and candles as they pray for the well-being of Malala Yousufzai, in Lahore, Pakistan, Oct. 10. Gunmen ambushed a van carrying Malala Yousafzai and several of her schoolmates on Oct. 9 in the Swat Valley's main town of Mingora. Pakistan awarded her the first-ever National Peace Award last year in recognition for her struggle for girls education, which the Taliban banned after seizing control of the Swat valley. She was also nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize.

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    Slideshow: Pakistan: A nation in turmoil

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    2 comments

    The greatest tragedy of all re: this story is that there are only two comments on it! Please, people, try to get behind the cause for the uplifting of the women in this world. Go to PBS web site and view their astonishing story called Half The Sky. What an eye-opener. Women are not the problem, they …

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