I am Malala

operation against Taliban in Swat
    July 2009 – Pakistan government declares Taliban cleared from Swat
    December 2009 – President Obama announces extra 33,000 troops for Afghanistan, putting total NATO troops at 140,000
    2010 – Floods across Pakistan kill 2,000 people
    2011 – Governor of Punjab Salman Taseer assassinated; bin Laden killed in Abbottabad; Malala wins Pakistan National Peace Prize
    9 October 2012 – Malala shot
    May 2013 – Musharraf returns and is arrested; elections go ahead despite Taliban violence; Nawaz Sharif wins to become prime minister for third time
    12 July 2013 – Malala addresses UN in New York on her sixteenth birthday and calls for free education for all children

Picture Section

    As a baby

    With my brother Khushal in Mingora

My father’s friend Hidayatullah holding me inside our first school building

My maternal grandfather, Malik Janser Khan, in Shangla

My father’s childhood home

Our paternal grandfather, Baba, with me and Khushal in our house in Mingora

Reading with my brother Khushal

With Khushal, enjoying the waterfall in Shangla

A school picnic

Assembly prayers at Khushal School

At the beginning, people gave lots of money to Fazlullah

The Taliban publicly whipped people

Making a speech to honour the people killed in the Haji Baba suicide attack

Performing in a play at school

Painting at school

A picture I painted when I was twelve, just after we came back to Swat from being IDPs. It shows the dream of interfaith harmony.

In our garden in Mingora, building a snowman with Atal

Visiting Spal Bandi, where my father stayed while he studied

At school reading a story: ‘All That Glitters Is Not Gold’

At the tomb of Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan

My father and the elders of Swat

School bombing

The bus where I was shot

Dr Fiona and Dr Javid by my bedside

First days in the Birmingham hospital

Reading in hospital

Our headmistress, Madam Maryam (left), with Shazia, one of the girls who was shot with me

My friends keep a chair in class for me (far right)

Sir Amjad, head of the boys’ school, greets my poster every morning

Here I am at the UN with Ban Ki-moon, Gordon Brown, family and friends

Speaking at the UN on my sixteenth birthday

With my mother in Medina

Here we are outside our new home in Birmingham

Additional Credits and Thanks
    Picture section
    SECTION 1
P4 bottom © Copyright Justin Sutcliffe 2013.
    SECTION 2
    P2 top © Kh Awais
    P2 bottom © Copyright Asad Hashim/Al Jazeera. Courtesy of Al Jazeera English (AlJazeera.com).
    P3 top, bottom , P4 top © Copyright University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. Used with the kind permission of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
    P5 bottom © Copyright Justin Sutcliffe 2013.
    P6 top © UN Photo / Eskinder Debebe. Used with the kind permission of the United Nations Photo Library.
    bottom © UN Photo / Rick Bajornas. Used with the kind permission of the United Nations Photo Library.
    P8 © Antonio Olmos 2013.
    Text
    With grateful thanks to:
    The Jinnah Archive ( www.jinnaharchive.com ) for the use of selections from the work of Quaid-i-Azam M.A. Jinnah.
    Rahmat Shah Sayel for use of his poems.
    For help with the translations of tapey from Pashto, thanks to my father’s friends Mr Hamayun Masaud, Mr Muhammad Amjad, Mr Ataurrahman and Mr Usman Ulasyar.

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