Malala speaks out: Taliban attack 'cowardly'

[JI7]

Source: daily life

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban for promoting girls' education, has denounced an attack on a bus carrying female students in Quetta as "cowardly".

At least 25 people were killed on Saturday when militants blew up the bus in the capital of restive Baluchistan province and then stormed a hospital where survivors had been taken for treatment.

"This was a cowardly and desperate attempt to deny girls their right to education," Malala, 15, said in a statement on Monday.

Former British prime minister Gordon Brown, the United Nations special envoy for global education, said it was the "bloodiest atrocity yet in escalating violence against female students".

Read more: http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/malala-speaks-out-taliban-attack-cowardly-20130618-2of31.html

[Skittles]

1. I hope to hear from Ms. Yousafzai for many years to come

she is quite the courageous young gal

[dipsydoodle]

2. Yes hopefully she'll be able to go back there soon

and speak out from there accordingly.

[Auntie Bush]

5. Unfortunately I hope she doesn't. They'd surely kill her and her father.

She has a voice where she is. Let her keep speaking up for women's rights.

[dipsydoodle]

6. Her and her family

are only here in the UK on tourist visas.

Meanwhile the Pakistan government are paying for her education and have employed her father at a consulate.

[JI7]

7. i hope she wins the nobel peace prize, i'm sure she can easily be granted political asylum

probably anywhere in the world. it's clear what danger she faces .

fuck the taliban

[Franker65]

3. Brave girl

And of course it was cowardly. The best way to defeat the Taliban is through listening to girls like Malala.

[bemildred]

4. Yes, men who attack women (and children too for that matter) are cowards and bullies. nt