Taliban threat looms againīut people fear the Taliban are making a comeback in Swat, despite government assurances to the contrary, after several attacks in the past month.Ī bomb blast on September 13, which killed a former member of the civilian resistance to the Taliban's rule and seven other people, was followed a few weeks later by the abduction of a policeman and two military officers. She said people in Swat respected women and valued their education, with parents comparing their daughters not in terms of dowry, fashion, beauty or money, but by their academic achievements. “I've seen see two or three students in school saying that we should author a book.” “Everyone has come to know that a girl from Swat can win a Nobel Prize, and our dreams have grown,” Ms Shakir said. Instead, the incident changed children’s outlook and broadened their horizons. Huma Shakir, director, Khushal School and College “I am still getting inspiration because Malala studied here,” she said, noting that the Taliban attack did not stop Malala from completing her education and becoming a voice for women’s rights. Marjan, whose ambition is to become a lawyer, said she chose to attend KSC because of Malala. He said girls in Swat were inspired by Malala and there had been a surge in enrolment. “I want to pay tribute to the brave girls of Swat because at that time their parents were not allowing them to go to school, but they protested and insisted on coming,” he said. Panicked parents tried to stop their daughters from attending school after the attack, Mr Iqbal told The National. But news of the attack soon spread through the region and teachers rushed to the Swat Teaching Hospital in the Saidu Sharif area where Malala was taken, he said.
Her teacher Iqbal Hussain recalled getting a phone call from Malala’s father Ziauddin Yousafzai to ask why she had not returned home. However, Malala insisted on continuing her education. The hardline group, which was largely driven out of Swat in a military operation between 20, had issued a ban on girls attending school. The attack was claimed by the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), commonly known as the Pakistani Taliban. Militants shot Malala, then aged 15, and two of her friends on a bus as they were returning from school on October 9, 2012. Iqbal Hussain, a member of the faculty at Khushal School and College in Pakistan's Swat region where Malala Youafzai was a pupil, teaches science to 10th grade pupils.
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