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Though she would require multiple surgeries, including repair of a facial nerve to fix the paralyzed left side of her face, she had suffered no major brain damage. Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text. Like other parts of north-west Pakistan, Swat had always been a devout and conservative region, but what was happening by 2007 was very different - radio broadcasts threatening Sharia-style punishments for those who departed from local Muslim traditions, and most ominously, edicts against education.

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The murder attempt received worldwide media coverage and produced an outpouring of sympathy and anger. The Taliban began to control the Swat Valley and quickly became the dominant socio-political force throughout much of northwestern Pakistan.In early 2009, when she was 11, she wrote a blog under her pseudonym Gul Makai for the BBC Urdu to detail her life during the Taliban's occupation of Swat. As Adnan Aurangzeb says, "Swat was proud of its record on education… one way to identify a Swati outside of Swat was that he always had a pen in his chest pocket, and that meant he was literate. They made one stop first—to meet with a group of other grassroots activists that had been invited to see United States President Barack Obama's special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke. Referring to her speech, Thomas West, the US special representative for Afghanistan, said the women and girls in Afghanistan deserve full access to education to realise their potential.

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Malala Yousafzai ( Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی, Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ, pronunciation: [məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj]; [4] born 12 July 1997) [1] [4] [5] is a Pakistani female education activist and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate [6] at the age of 17. Yousafzai's public profile rose even further when she was awarded Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize two months later in December. The part of the brain involved was concerned not only with speech but also giving power to the right arm and leg," Khan says. The night before the ban took effect was filled with the noise of artillery fire, waking Yousafzai several times. I thought she was probably going to survive, but I wasn't sure of her neurological outcome, because she'd been so sick.

He has no doubt about her power to focus attention on the bigger picture of nearly 60 million out-of-school children around the world.

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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. And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children.The Pakistani Taliban and some other pro-Pakistani Taliban elements branded Yousafzai an "American spy". The first of these was Miangul Gulshahzada Sir Abdul Wadud, appointed by a local council in 1915 and known to Swatis as "Badshah Sahib" - the King. In March 2013, after weeks of treatment and therapy, Malala was able to begin attending school in Birmingham. On 3 January 2013, Yousafzai was discharged from the hospital to continue her rehabilitation at her family's temporary home in the West Midlands, [77] [78] where she had weekly physiotherapy.

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The Nobel Prize laureate also asked for action from global agencies to safeguard refugees and civilians. The Combined Military Hospital in Peshawar is the best medical facility in the region, treating not just military personnel but their families too. Her tweet came after a controversy that began with a group of Indian schoolgirls asserting their right to wear the hijab has ballooned into a national row pitting students into protests and counter-protests along religious lines.A cochlear implant was also inserted into Malala's left ear to correct damage to her hearing caused by the bullet.