Using the name “Gul Makai,” she described being forced to stay at home, and she questioned the motives of the Taliban. She wrote about life in the Swat Valley under Taliban rule, and about her desire to go to school. In early 2009, Malala started to blog anonymously on the Urdu language site of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). “How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?” she once said on Pakistani TV. Alongside her father, Malala quickly became a critic of their tactics. By the end of 2008, the Taliban had destroyed some 400 schools.ĭetermined to go to school and with a firm belief in her right to an education, Malala stood up to the Taliban. Suicide attacks were widespread, and the group made its opposition to a proper education for girls a cornerstone of its terror campaign. Girls were banned from attending school, and cultural activities like dancing and watching television were prohibited. The Taliban began to control the Swat Valley and quickly became the dominant socio-political force throughout much of northwestern Pakistan.
In 2007, when Malala was ten years old, the situation in the Swat Valley rapidly changed for her family and community. She later wrote that her father told her stories about how she would toddle into classes even before she could talk and acted as if she were the teacher. For years her father, a passionate education advocate himself, ran a learning institution in the city, and school was a big part of Malala’s family.
She is the daughter of Ziauddin and Tor Pekai Yousafzai and has two younger brothers.Īt a very young age, Malala developed a thirst for knowledge. M alala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, the largest city in the Swat Valley in what is now the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan.
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