Malala Yousafzai is a student from the town of Mingora in Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwaprovince, Pakistan. She is known for her education and women’s rights activism in the Swat Valley, where the Taliban has at times banned girls from attending school. In early 2009, at the age of 11, Yousafzai came to prominence through a blog she wrote for the BBC detailing her life under the Taliban regime, their attempts to take control of the valley, and her views on promoting education for girls. Later that year, the Pakistani military intervened, culminating in the expulsion of the Taliban from the Swat Valley. Yousafzai has since been nominated for awards, and has won Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize.
On 9 October 2012, Yousafzai was shot in the head and neck in an assassination attempt by Taliban gunmen while returning home on a school bus. She remains unconscious and in critical condition. A group of 50 Islamic clerics in Pakistan have issued a fatwā against those who tried to kill her.
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