Baitullah Mehsud

Imagine you are a teenaged girl who has had school banned, who has been shot in the head, and who has been tragically separated from her home, friends ,and family. This scenario sounds terrible. What if I told you that this actually happened to a girl in Pakistan? Malala is now 19 and has endured all of that and more. The Taliban had come and told people that girls should not be allowed to go to school, so it was banned. Malala loved school so she got her dad who was running the girls school keep it open and the girls snuck to school. Reading I am Malala changed my perspective on school and even life. One lesson I learned from the book was to believe in myself. In I am Malala even after the Taliban had school for girls banned she did not give up. After she got shot she still did not give up. If she could go through all of that without giving up then why should I give up on ideas that I believe in? Furthermore, if you want something bad enough and try your hardest you can accomplish anything, and she did. She believed that girls have the right to school so she “spoke out to anyone who would listen”(72). After she did not give up she wanted school so bad she made it happen. If she can do what her heart was set on why can’t I? One of the most important lessons the book taught me it was that no one can tell you who you are. When the Taliban put her on the kill list and the town hated women she stood up and did what she thought was right. No one was going to tell her to get…

At this point in my reading about “I am Malala”, I am intrigued on how many obstacles Malala and her family and others of this country had to endure each and every day in order to live. They had to deal with floods, earthquakes, destruction to their homes and schools and the worst part of living there was dealing with the bombings and the Taliban. Malala’s father believed in education so much so that he started a school to educate girls and boys. He was starting to become a known figure in…

In Afghanistan on October 10, 1994, a genocide group was created called the Taliban. The founders of the Taliban is Muhammad Omar, Hamid Gul, Baitullah Mehsud, and Abdul Ghani Baradar. The word Taliban can also be spelled Taleban, the word comes from Arabic and means religious students. They use a strict form of the Islamic Law Sharia. The Taliban is an Islamic fundamentalist political movement, that's constantly waging war in Afghanistan. The main leader of the Taliban was Muhammad Omar until…

Conflict is a type of conflict or problem when different groups of people with different beliefs and values start arguments with each other. The . Malala Yousafzai was born on the 12th of July,1997. She lived in Mingora, Pakistan. Malala is an activist who uses actions and strong words to support or oppose something, it is also when someone takes direct action to complete and reach their goal. Malala’s political goal was to stand up for women's education in Pakistan. On October 9th, 2012 a…

Al-Qaeda, and the Taliban hosted training camps and leaders under their controlled territories (Afsar, 2008). After the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, Omar refused to extradite Bin-Laden, and in response triggered Operation Enduring Freedom which led to the collapse of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda both in Afghanistan (Afsar, 2008). The fighters melted into society and the leaders went underground. They later emerged as the core of an insurgency in Pakistan (Afsar,…

consideration of negative impacts may not be easily taken care of. There are also concerns that the drone strikes that kill innocent civilians create unwanted political consequences which once again lead to the morality concerns. Because of these consequences, some people allege that the drone war may not be “winnable” because each strike, especially those with civilian casualties, create a public outrage and a call for revenge. For instance, according to Ghosh and Thomson (2009), “Retired…

Malala describes the rise of the Taliban and the begining of life under their rule. The Pakistani Taliban, formally known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban, are a rebel group in Pakistan allied with al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban. Uniting a number of rebel groups into a single one, the group was formed in 207 Baitullah Mehsud. They controlled all forms of media, closed schools, raided houses, kidnapped women, shut down businesses, burned books, cds, tvs, computers, whipped and beat ‘disobedient’…

American personnel can target the enemies without actually crossing border and risking their life. The first drone strike inside Pakistani territory took place in 2004 and since then there have been 424 strikes in which 2500 men, women and children lost their lives. Refrence http://www.dawn.com/news/1260840 The question remains whether the drone strikes are a violation of Pakistan’s Sovereignty and territorial integrity or there is more to it. Pakistan has publically denounced all drone…

an additional 17,000 U.S. troops, in addition to the 36,000 U.S. troops and 32,000 NATO service members that were already there (Witte). By spring 2010 more than 1,000 U.S. troops had been killed in Afghanistan, while British troops suffered about 300 deaths and the Canadians about 150. Both Britain and Canada placed their troops in southern Afghanistan, where fighting was most intense (Witte). President Obama announced a major escalation in the war effort, with 30,000 additional troops being…