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Taliban shooting survivor speaks in 'I Am Malala'

London:  A year ago, Malala Yousafzai was a 15-year-old schoolgirl in northwest Pakistan, thinking about calculus and chemistry, Justin Bieber songs and “Twilight” movies.Today she's the world-famous survivor of a Taliban assassination attempt, an activist



He passed on to his daughter a hunger for knowledge and a questioning spirit.

At 11, she began giving TV interviews in Pakistan about girls' education.

In 2009, she started writing a blog for the BBC Urdu service under a pseudonym.

She soon became well known within Pakistan—and therefore a potential Taliban target.

But she was reassured by the thought: “Even the Taliban don't kill children.”

That optimism proved misplaced, but—miraculously, it seemed to many—Malala survived the shooting.

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