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LashkareTaiba. LeT had close links to the ISI and was set up to liberate Kashmir, which we believe should be part of Pakistan not India as its population is mostly Muslim. The leader of LeT is a fiery professor from Lahore called Hafiz Saeed, who is often on television calling on people to attack India. When the earthquake happened and our government did little to help, JuD set up relief camps patrolled by men with Kalashnikovs and walkie-talkies. Everyone knew these men belonged to LeT, and soon their black and white banners with crossed swords were flying everywhere in the mountains and valleys. In the town of Muzaffarabad in Azad Kashmir the JuD even set up a large field hospital with X-ray machines, an operating theatre, a well-stocked pharmacy and a dental department. Doctors and surgeons offered their services along with thousands of young volunteers. Earthquake victims praised the activists who had trudged up and down mountains and through shattered valleys carrying medical help to remote regions no one else had bothered with. They helped clear and rebuild destroyed villages as well as leading prayers and burying bodies. Even today, when most of the foreign aid agencies have gone, shattered buildings still line the roadside and people are still waiting for compensation from the government to build new houses, the JuD banners and helpers are still present. My cousin who was studying in the UK said they raised lots of money from Pakistanis living there. People later said that some of this money had been diverted to finance a plot to bomb planes travelling from Britain to the US. With such a large number of people killed, there were many children orphaned – 11,000 of them. In our culture orphans are usually taken in by the extended family, but the earthquake was so bad that entire families had been wiped out or lost everything so were in no position to take in children. The government promised they would all be looked after by the state, but that felt as empty as most government promises. My father heard that many of the boys were taken in by the JuD and housed in their madrasas. In Pakistan, madrasas are a kind of welfare system as they give free food and lodging, but their teaching does not follow a normal curriculum. The boys learn the Quran by heart, rocking back and forth as they recite. They learn that there is no such thing as science or literature, that dinosaurs never existed and that man never went to the moon. The whole nation was in shock for a long time after the earthquake. Already so unlucky with our politicians and military dictators, now, on top of everything else, we had to deal with a natural disaster. Mullahs from the TNSM preached that the earthquake was a warning from God. If we did not mend our ways and introduce shariat or Islamic law, they shouted in their thundering voices, more severe punishment would come. PART TWO The Valley of Death Rabab mangia wakht de teer sho Da kali khwa ta Talibaan raaghali dena Farewell Music! Even your sweetest tunes are best kept silent The Taliban on the edge of the village have stilled all lips
9 Radio Mullah I WAS TEN when the Taliban came to our valley. Moniba and I had been reading the Twilight books and longed to be vampires. It seemed to us that the Taliban arrived in the night just like vampires. They appeared in groups, armed with knives and Kalashnikovs, and first emerged in Upper Swat, in the hilly areas of Matta. They didn’t call themselves Taliban to start with and didn’t look like the Afghan Taliban we’d seen in pictures with their turbans and black-rimmed eyes. These were strange-looking men with long straggly hair and beards and camouflage vests over their shalwar kamiz, which they wore with the trousers well above the ankle. They had jogging shoes or cheap plastic sandals on their feet, and sometimes stockings over their heads with holes for their eyes, and they blew their noses dirtily into the ends of their turbans. They wore black badges which said SHARIAT YA SHAHADAT – SHARIA LAW OR MARTYRDOM – and sometimes black turbans, so people called them Tor Patki or the Black-Turbaned Brigade. They looked so dark and dirty that my father’s friend described them as ‘people deprived of baths and barbers’. Their leader was Maulana Fazlullah, a 28-year-old who used to operate the pulley chair to cross the Swat River and whose right leg dragged because of childhood polio. He had studied in the madrasa of Maulana Sufi Mohammad, the founder of the TNSM, and married his daughter. When Sufi Mohammad was imprisoned in a round-up of militant leaders in 2002, Fazlullah had taken over the movement’s leadership. It was shortly before the earthquake that Fazlullah had appeared in Imam Deri, a small village just a few miles outside Mingora on the other side of the Swat River, and set up his illegal radio station. In our valley we received most of our information from the radio because so many had no TV or are illiterate. Soon everyone seemed to be talking about the radio station. It became known as Mullah FM and Fazlullah as the Radio Mullah. It broadcast every night from eight to ten and again in the morning from seven to nine. In the beginning Fazlullah was very wise. He introduced himself as an Islamic reformer and an interpreter of the Quran. My mother is very devout, and to start with she liked Fazlullah. He used his station to encourage people to adopt good habits and abandon practices he said were bad. He said men should keep their beards but give up smoking and using the tobacco they liked to chew. He said people should stop using heroin, and chars, which is our word for hashish. He told people the correct way to do their ablutions for prayers – which body part to wash first. He even told people how they should wash their private parts. Sometimes his voice was reasonable, like when adults are trying to persuade you to do something you don’t want to, and sometimes it was scary and full of fire. Often he would weep as he spoke of his love for Islam. Usually he spoke for a while, then his deputy Shah Douran came on air, a man who used to sell snacks from a tricycle in the bazaar. They warned people to stop listening to music, watching movies and dancing. Sinful acts like these had caused the earthquake, Fazlullah thundered, and if people didn’t stop they would again invite the wrath of God. Mullahs often misinterpret the
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I AM MALALA The Girl Who Stood Up f
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Contents Cover Title Page Dedicatio
Page 8 and 9: PART FIVE: A SECOND LIFE 23 ‘The
Page 10 and 11: that as a threat. Yet, outside the
Page 12 and 13: My friends say he fired three shots
Page 14 and 15: 1 A Daughter Is Born WHEN I WAS bor
Page 16 and 17: We lived in Mingora, the biggest to
Page 18 and 19: When I was around four years old I
Page 20 and 21: primary school and ended the wesh s
Page 22 and 23: School wasn’t the only thing my a
Page 24 and 25: y the CIA. Children in the refugee
Page 26 and 27: homes to get them. He felt ashamed
Page 28 and 29: was in Saidu Sharif, the twin town
Page 30 and 31: our own book,’ he suggested. He e
Page 32 and 33: school owners from such bullying an
Page 34 and 35: for the night. It took them a week
Page 36 and 37: We drove out of the bazaar, past th
Page 38 and 39: Usually politicians only visited du
Page 40 and 41: I read my books like Anna Karenina
Page 42 and 43: I think everyone makes a mistake at
Page 44 and 45: or books many of his friends helped
Page 46 and 47: Aneesa from the village, who had co
Page 48 and 49: We were not fans of the Taliban as
Page 50 and 51: 7 The Mufti Who Tried to Close Our
Page 52 and 53: close it. Girls should not be going
Page 54 and 55: The mufti went quiet. He took off h
Page 56 and 57: 8 The Autumn of the Earthquake ONE
Page 60 and 61: Quran and Hadith when they teach th
Page 62 and 63: uilding a vast red-brick headquarte
Page 64 and 65: The authorities turned a blind eye.
Page 66 and 67: time they had taken over fifty-nine
Page 68 and 69: esult in Benazir becoming prime min
Page 70 and 71: The Musharraf government later said
Page 72 and 73: The army action at the end of 2007
Page 74 and 75: questions. I wasn’t the only one
Page 76 and 77: no electricity, then a few days lat
Page 78 and 79: journalists went. It seemed that pe
Page 80 and 81: Swat. Initially Madam Maryam’s yo
Page 82 and 83: Fortunately the Taliban had disappe
Page 84 and 85: a time of horror and fear. People o
Page 86 and 87: fighting. The Taliban agreed to a t
Page 88 and 89: ‘There cannot be two swords in on
Page 90 and 91: Leaving the Valley LEAVING THE VALL
Page 92 and 93: if there was a tent for us, it was
Page 94 and 95: He laughed. ‘You already have lot
Page 96 and 97: 16 The Valley of Sorrows IT ALL SEE
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Page 100 and 101: But my father had a big problem. Wh
Page 102 and 103: We soon heard from our relatives th
Page 104 and 105: 17 Praying to Be Tall WHEN I WAS th
Page 106 and 107: passionately. ‘Fazlullah is the c
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just sneak in under our radar? And
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twenty-one girls and made our prior
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Afterwards we went into the small m
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‘Aba, this is a very strange situ
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patrols.’The army say there is pe
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then a pretty cousin came to stay w
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Atal got very cross. ‘No, no, no!
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21 ‘God, I entrust her to you’
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My mother was astonished to see all
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My father was bewildered by all the
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That first morning, just a few hour
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22 Journey into the Unknown I WAS S
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sweets. One mealtime Khushal said t
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My father then signed an ‘in loco
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23 ‘The Girl Shot in the Head, Bi
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had also ordered him not to cry as
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She told me that I had been shot on
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very kind, particularly Yma Choudhu
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24 ‘They have snatched her smile
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paralysed. The hospital had been gi
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Mr Zardari told the high commission
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complains about the murals of Greek
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classmates still keep the seat for
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Today we all know education is our
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Pashtunwali - traditional behaviour
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students of the Khushal School, Ahm
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A note on the Malala Fund My goal i
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My father’s friend Hidayatullah h
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My father’s childhood home
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Reading with my brother Khushal
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A school picnic
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At the beginning, people gave lots
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Making a speech to honour the peopl
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Painting at school
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In our garden in Mingora, building
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At school reading a story: ‘All T
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My father and the elders of Swat
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The bus where I was shot
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First days in the Birmingham hospit
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Our headmistress, Madam Maryam (lef
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Sir Amjad, head of the boys’ scho
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Speaking at the UN on my sixteenth
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Here we are outside our new home in
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