The Outspoken Girl!

"I don't mind if i have to sit on the floor at school. All I want is EDUCATION. And i am afraid of NO ONE- Malala Yousufsai"

"Which one of you is Malala? Speak up, otherwise I will shoot you all," a hooded, bearded Taliban militant asked a bus full of schoolgirls on their way home earlier this week. "She is propagating against the soldiers of Allah, the Taliban. She must be punished," the Taliban militant shouted louder. Then, recognizing her, he shot her at a point blank range. The girl is Malala Yousafzai, the outspoken 14-year-old girl whose shooting by the Taliban has outraged the world.

Malala Yousafzai was born in 1998 and is a school student from the town of Mingora in northwestern Pakistan. She is known for her education and women’s rights activism in the Swat Valley, where the Tehrik-i-Taliban regime had banned girls from attending school in early 2009. At the age of 11, Yousafzai came to prominence through a blog she wrote for the BBC detailing her life under the Taliban regime, their attempts to take control of the valley, and her views on promoting education for girls. Later that year, the Pakistani military would intervene, culminating in the expulsion of the Taliban from the Swat Valley. Yousafzai has since been nominated for several awards, and has won Pakistan's first National Peace Prize. On 9 October 2012, Yousafzai was shot in the head and neck in an assassination attempt by a Taliban gunman while returning home on a school bus. Malala is an inspiration to everyone! She will continue to resonate the lives of thousands young girls. Salute to Malala Yousafzai!!!