Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by Pakistani Taliban terrorists when she was only 15 years old because of her advocacy for girls’ education.
Ten years after a Taliban murder attempt on her life, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai came to her native Pakistan on Tuesday to visit flood victims.
Yousafzai was shot in the head over her advocacy for girls’ education by militants from the Pakistani Taliban, a separate organisation with ties to the Afghan Taliban. She was just 15 years old at the time.
After being airlifted to Britain for life-saving treatment, she went on to campaign for international education and become the youngest person to ever win the Nobel Peace Prize.
She was only making her second trip since the shooting; she arrived in Karachi two days after the attack’s tenth anniversary. From there, she will go to places that have been destroyed by monsoon flooding that has never happened before.
Her organisation, Malala Fund, stated in a statement that the goal of her trip is to “help maintain international attention on the impact of floods in Pakistan and stress the need for urgent humanitarian aid.”
A third of Pakistan was submerged by catastrophic flooding, which also forced eight million people to flee their homes and put them in danger of contracting diseases. The damage was estimated at $28 billion.
Yousafzai’s visit is happening at the same time as a strike at her old school. The students are protesting the rise in violence in Mingora, Pakistan, where she was born and raised.
Before a significant military operation in the country’s northwest in 2014 brought an end to the Pakistani Taliban’s years-long insurgency there, security had been lost.
But since the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan last year, there has been a rise in militancy there.
Attacks have increased recently, primarily targeting security forces.
Up to 2,000 kids and instructors skipped class on Monday as a result of an attack on a school bus that left the driver dead and a child injured.
Although the Pakistani Taliban have denied responsibility, locals have blamed them.
Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan, ten years after her assassination attempt by the Taliban
