The Girl Who Changed Pakistan: Malala Yousafzai
The teenage girls chatted to each other and their
teachers 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. “That’s the one,” the gunman said, looking the
15-year-old girl in the face and pulling the trigger twice, shooting
her in the head and neck. He fired twice more, wounding two other
girls, and then both men fled the scene.
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A. Cuvelier
