Taliban gunman shot Malala Yousafzai on a bus – true

I have travelled to her home town ... family, for one reason - to answer the same question barked by the gunman who flagged down her school bus last October: "Who is Malala?"...

A global "day of action" for girls' education is under way, declared in the name of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl campaigner shot by the Taliban last month. The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil spoke to a friend of Malala's who was also injured in that attack. "It was mayhem," recalls Kainat Riaz of the day when her friend Malala was shot while they were on on their school bus last month in Pakistan's Swat valley.

She was hit in the head and, some reports say, in the neck area by a second bullet, but is now in hospital and is reportedly out of danger. Another girl who was with her at the time was also injured.

MINGORA, Pakistan A Taliban gunman walked up to a bus taking children home from school in Pakistan's volatile Swat Valley on Tuesday and shot and wounded a 14-year-old activist known for championing the education of girls and publicizing atrocities ...

Malala Yousafzai nearly died when gunmen boarded her schoolbus and shot her in the head in October 2012 over her education activism.

Malala was 15 when she and two ... last October. She was seriously injured in the attack, and was flown to Britain to receive specialist treatment from doctors in Birmingham, where she and her family now live....

Police said a bearded man approached the bus and asked which of the girls was Malala. When one of the girls pointed at her she denied it. The gunman shot both girls, although police say three people were wounded in all. A Taliban spokesman, Ehsanullah Ehsan, claimed responsibility on behalf of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Pakistani offshoot of the Taliban movement notorious for its restrictions of women's freedom and female education during the five years before late 2001 when they were in power in Afghanistan.

"It would be better to plead, 'Okay, shoot me, but first listen to me. What you are doing is wrong. I'm not against you personally. I just want every girl to go to school.'" On Oct. 9, 2012, Malala was on the bus on her way home from school when a "young, bearded man" stepped into the road.

9, 2012 On this day, Malala Yousafzai, then 14, was boarding a school bus in Pakistan when a gunman appeared, asked for her by name and shot her in the head. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on the ninth-grader, who had gained international attention in 2009 for documenting Taliban atrocities using a pen name for the BBC's Urdu service.

وفي عمر 15 سنة فقط، تعرضت يوسفزاي لإطلاق نار من قبل مسلحي «طالبان»، في محاولة لاغتيالها، أثناء ركوبها حافلة تقلها إلى المنزل من المدرسة.

وكانت ملالا اضطُرت لمغادرة باكستان عام 2012 بعد إصابتها برصاصة في الرأس، إثر محاولة اغتيال فاشلة لها نفذها مسلحو حركة طالبان، بسبب ...