I Am Malal A Short Story: I Am Mallala

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‘I am Malala’
There's so many children around the world is having fun with their friend, studying in the school and growing up in a happy family. Unfortunately, not all children are lucky to live their life in a peace world. Here is the story about a girl who stands for her right, brave and matured enough to speak in the public. Daughter of Ziaudin Yousafzai and Toorpekai Yousafzai, named their daughter as Malala. The meaning of Malala is grief-stricken, derived from a popular Pashtun poetess and woman fighter from Southern Afghanistan, Malalai of Maiwan. She was born on 12 July 1997 in the Swat District of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Her last name, Yousafzai, is that of a substantial Pashtun tribal confederation
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When she was 14, Malala and her family discovered that the Taliban had issued a passing danger against her. Despite the fact that Malala was terrified for the wellbeing of her father with the anti-Taliban dissident, she and her family at first felt that the fundamentalist gathering would not really hurt a kid.
On October 9, 2012, on her route home from school, a man boarded the school bus that Malala was riding in and requested to know which young lady was Malala. When her companions looked to Malala, her area was doled out. The shooter shot at her, hitting Malala in the left half of her head; the slug then went down her neck. Two different young ladies were additionally harmed in the assault.
The shooting left Malala in critical state, so she was sent to a military clinic in Peshawar. Some parts of her skull were evacuated to treat her swelling cerebrum. To get further intensive care, she was exchanged to Birmingham, England.
The shooting brought about a huge overflowing back up for Yousafzai, which kept amid her recuperation. She gave a talk at the United Nations on her sixteenth birthday, in 2013. She has likewise composed a story about her life, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, which was discharged in October 2013. Shockingly, the Taliban still considers Yousafzai as a

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