On this day, a Taliban gunman shot and critically wounded the young Pakistani schoolgirl, Malala Yousafkai, as she rode home from school on a bus in her native district, Swat. Although only 15 years old at the time of the shooting, Malala’s outspoken defence of girls’ rights to education and her nomination for the International Children’s Peace Prize by activist Desmond Tutu, had already made her a high-profile target for the Taliban. After a long and difficult recovery, Malala became an even more prominent activist, co-founding the Malala Fund, a non-profit organisation, with Shiza Shahid. In 2013, she co-authored “I Am Malala“, an international best seller, as well as receiving the Sakharov Prize, and in 2014, at the age of just 17, she was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize with Kailash Satyarthi of India. Today, Malala’s advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become Pakistan’s “most prominent citizen”.
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