PHOTOS: Malala Yousafzai, one year since attempted Taliban assassination of Pakistani schoolgirl
October 9, 2013
Pakistani girls gather under a poster of Malala Yousufzai in her old school in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. The giant poster of her that once emblazoned the wall of the assembly hall has been removed. The school made no plans to recognize the anniversary of Malala's shooting by Taliban because teachers and students are afraid. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) ( Pakistan Malala Shooting )
Pakistani girls arrive for class at a school in Mingora, a town in Swat valley, on October 9, 2013, the first anniversary of the shooting of Malala Yousafzai by the Taliban. Yousafzai, the teenage activist nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, says she has not done enough to deserve the award, as her old school closed October 9 to mark the first anniversary of her shooting by the Taliban. A Majeed/AFP/Getty Images ( 523637336 )
Pakistani school children chant prayers during a special class to recognize the anniversary of Malala's shooting by Taliban, at a school in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. One year after a Taliban bullet tried to silence Malala Yousufzai's demand for education, she has published a book and is a contender for the Nobel Peace Prize. But the militants threaten to kill her should she dare return home from Britain to Pakistan, and the principal at her old school says that as Malala's fame has grown, so has fear in her classrooms. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) ( APTOPIX Pakistan Malala )
Pakistani schoolboys look out the window of their classroom at other classmates chanting prayers to commemorate the anniversary of Malala's shooting by Taliban, at a school in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. One year after a Taliban bullet tried to silence Malala Yousufzai's demand for education, she has published a book and is a contender for the Nobel Peace Prize. But the militants threaten to kill her should she dare return home from Britain to Pakistan, and the principal at her old school says that as Malala's fame has grown, so has fear in her classrooms. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) ( APTOPIX Pakistan Malala )
Pakistani school children sit in their classroom during a special class to commemorate the anniversary of Malala Yousufzai's shooting by Taliban, at a school in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. One year after a Taliban bullet tried to silence Malala's demand for girls' education, she has published a book and is a contender for the Nobel Peace Prize. But the militants threaten to kill her should she dare return home to Pakistan, and the principal at her old school says that as Malala's fame has grown, so has fear in her classrooms. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) ( Pakistan Malala )
Pakistani school children hold a hand-written sign during a special class to commemorate the anniversary of Malala Yousufzai's shooting by Taliban, at a school in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. One year after a Taliban bullet tried to silence Malala's demand for education, she has published a book and is a contender for the Nobel Peace Prize. But the militants threaten to kill her should she dare return home from Britain to Pakistan, and the principal at her old school says that as Malala's fame has grown, so has fear in her classrooms. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) ( Pakistan Malala )
Fifteen-year old Pakistani shooting victim Malala Yousafzai as she recovers in Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, after being shot in the head by the Taliban in Pakistan for advocating education for girls. A year ago, Malala Yousafzai was a schoolgirl in northwest Pakistan. Today she's the world-famous survivor of a Taliban assassination attempt, an activist for girls' education and a contender to win the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday Oct. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, File) ( Britain Malala )
Malala Yousufzai says goodbye as she is discharged from the hospital to continue her rehabilitation at her family's temporary home in the area, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. The teenage Pakistani girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls' education has been released from the hospital after impressing doctors with her strength. Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham officials said Friday 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai will be treated as an outpatient before being readmitted for further cranial re-constructive surgery at the end of the month. (AP Photo/Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham) ( APTOPIX Britain Pakistani Girl )
Malala Yousafzai, right, leaves Massachusetts Hall with Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust to a news conference on the school's campus in Cambridge, Mass. on Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. The Pakistani teenager, an advocate for education for girls, survived a Taliban assassination attempt last year on her way home from school. (AP Photo/Jessica Rinaldi) ( Malala Honored Harvard )
Malala Yousafzai, left, is presented with the 2013 Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award by Director of the Harvard Foundation and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School Dr. S. Allen Counter, right, at Harvard University Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, on the school's campus in Cambridge, Mass. The Pakistani teenager, an advocate for education for girls, survived a Taliban assassination attempt last year on her way home from school. (AP Photo/Jessica Rinaldi) ( Malala Honored Harvard )
Malala Yousafzai's father Ziauddin Yousafzai stands as he is given a standing ovation at Harvard University Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, on the school's campus in Cambridge, Mass. Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani teenager and an advocate for education for girls, survived a Taliban assassination attempt last year on her way home from school. (AP Photo/Jessica Rinaldi) ( Malala Honored Harvard )
A Pakistani female supporter of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) carries a photograph of gunshot victim, Malala Yousafzai as she prays for the recovery of Malala Yousafzai, in Karachi on October 10, 2012. Pakistani doctors removed a bullet from a 14-year-old child campaigner shot by the Taliban in a horrific attack condemned by national leaders and rights activists. The attack took place in Mingora, the main town of the Swat valley in Pakistan's northwest, where Malala had campaigned for the right to an education during a two-year Taliban insurgency which the army said it had crushed in 2009. RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/GettyImages ( 514521749 )
Supporters of the Pakistani political party Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), attend a rally to condemn the attack on 14-year-old schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, who was shot last Tuesday by the Taliban for speaking out in support of education for women, in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012. Tens of thousands rallied in Pakistan's largest city Sunday in support of a 14-year-old girl who was shot and critically wounded by the Taliban for promoting girls' education and criticizing the militant group. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil) ( Pakistan Malala )
Pakistani youths shout slogans during a protest against the assassination attempt by Taliban on child activist Malala Yousafzai in Lahore on October 15, 2012. A teenage Pakistani rights activist was flown to Britain for specialist long-term care on October 15 after being shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for the right to education. Malala Yousafzai, 14, who was attacked on her school bus in the former Taliban stronghold of the Swat valley last Tuesday, was sent abroad at a time when her condition is "optimal and before any unforeseen complications set in", the military said. Arif Ali/AFP/GettyImages ( 514627792 )
Pakistani children pray for the recovery of 14-year-old schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, who was shot on Tuesday by the Taliban for speaking out in support of education for women, during a candlelight vigil in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. A Pakistani military spokesman says Yousufzai is in "satisfactory" condition but cautions that the next few days will be critical. Writing reads on the poster left, "Malala Yousufzai." (AP Photo/Shakil Adil) ( APTOPIX Pakistan Malala )
Pakistani girls get a ride in a Ricksha on their way to school in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan on Oct. 5, 2013. A year ago a Pakistani girl Malala Yousufzai was shot in the head by Taliban as she was leaving school with others in a small pick-up truck used to transport children. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) ( Pakistan Malala Shooting )
Pakistani girls attend a class at a school in Mingora, the capital of Swat Valley on September 24, 2013. In Malala Yousafzai's home town in Pakistan, school friends hope to see her win the Nobel Peace Prize this week -- but they dream in secret, under pressure from a society deeply ambivalent about the teenage activist. Malala, who survived being shot by the Taliban on October 9 last year, has become a global ambassador for education, feted by celebrities and politicians around the Western world. AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images ( 523578063 )
A Pakistani policeman stands guard as female students leave the school of child activist, Malala Yousafzai, in Mingora the capital of Swat Valley on September 23, 2013. In Malala Yousafzai's home town in Pakistan, school friends hope to see her win the Nobel Peace Prize this week -- but they dream in secret, under pressure from a society deeply ambivalent about the teenage activist. Malala, who survived being shot by the Taliban on October 9 last year, has become a global ambassador for education, feted by celebrities and politicians around the Western world. AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images ( 523577192 )
Malala Yousafzai waves to onlookers as she walks with her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, right, and Director of the Harvard Foundation and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School Dr. S. Allen Counter, through Harvard Yard after a news conference on the campus in Cambridge, Mass. on Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. The Pakistani teenager, an advocate for education for girls, survived a Taliban assassination attempt in 2012 on her way home from school. (AP Photo/Jessica Rinaldi) ( Malala Honored Harvard )
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, listens as Malala Yousafzai, right, addresses the "Malala Day" Youth Assembly, at United Nations headquarters on Friday, July 12, 2013. A year ago, Malala Yousafzai was a schoolgirl in northwest Pakistan. Today she's the world-famous survivor of a Taliban assassination attempt, an activist for girls' education and a contender to win the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday Oct. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File) ( Britain Malala )
Queen of Jordan, Rania Al Abdullah (L), awards The Leadership in Civil Society to Malala Yousafzai, at the Clinton Global Citizen Award ceremony on September 25, 2013 in New York City. Timed to coincide with the United Nations General Assembly, CGI brings together heads of state, CEOs, philanthropists and others to help find solutions to the world's major problems. (Photo by Ramin Talaie/Getty Images) ( 181819930 )
David Beckham, right, presents a Mirror Pride of Britain Teenager of Courage Award to Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban for going to school. (AP Photo/Philip Coburn, Daily Mirror via PA) ( Britain Malala )
Pakistani girls attend a class at a school in Mingora, the capital of Swat Valley on September 24, 2013. In Malala Yousafzai's home town in Pakistan, school friends hope to see her win the Nobel Peace Prize this week -- but they dream in secret, under pressure from a society deeply ambivalent about the teenage activist. Malala, who survived being shot by the Taliban on October 9 last year, has become a global ambassador for education, feted by celebrities and politicians around the Western world. AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images ( 523578038 )
A Pakistani female student reads a chapter during a class in a school in Mingora, capital of Swat Valley, hometown of Malala Yousafzai, in Pakistan, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013. Malala was a 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 for girls' education and a contender to win the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. (AP Photo/Naveed Ali) ( Pakistan Malala )
A Pakistani girl studies at Malala Yousufzai's old school in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan on Saturday, Oct 5, 2013. Only a single picture showing Malala receiving an award stayed on the wall, a giant poster of her that once emblazoned the wall of the assembly hall has been removed. The school made no plans to recognize the anniversary of Malala's shooting by Taliban because teachers and students are afraid. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) ( Pakistan Malala Shooting )
Haroon, 5, left, and Abdul Hamid, 8, neighbors of the man who is accused of shooting Malala Yousufzai a year ago, sit in his home in Ghawari Mastas, Swat Valley, Pakistan on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. Military officials say Malala's assailant Attaullah, has fled to Afghanistan, while the police say the case is closed. In a rare interview, Attaullah's sister told The Associated Press: "We don't know where he is, whether he is dead or alive." (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) ( Pakistan Malala Shooting )
Pakistani farmer Painda Khan, the uncle of the man being accused of shooting Malala Yousufzai a year ago, makes his way down from his family house in Ghawari Mastas, Swat Valley, Pakistan on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. Military officials say Malala's assailant Attaullah, has fled to Afghanistan, while the police say the case is closed. In a rare interview with the Associated Press, Attaullah's uncle Painda Khan mumbled: "We don't know why people are blaming him. No one has told us why." (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) ( Pakistan Malala Shooting )
Pakistani girls attend class at a school in Mingora, a town in Swat valley, on October 9, 2013, the first anniversary of the shooting of Malala Yousafzai by the Taliban. Yousafzai, the teenage activist nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, says she has not done enough to deserve the award, as her old school closed October 9 to mark the first anniversary of her shooting by the Taliban. A Majeed/AFP/Getty Images ( 523637291 )
A young Pakistani girl works on her mid-term papers in a school in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan on Saturday, Oct 5, 2013. One year after a Taliban bullet tried to silence Malala Yousufzai's demand for education, she has published a book and is a contender for the Nobel Peace Prize. But still the militants threaten to kill her should she dare return home to Pakistan, and the principal at her old school says that as Malala's fame has grown, so has fear in her classrooms. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) ( Pakistan Malala Shooting )
A placard to commemorate the anniversary of Malala Yousufzai's shooting by the Taliban, is placed on a blackboard at a school in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. One year after a Taliban bullet tried to silence Malala's demand for education, she has published a book and is a contender for the Nobel Peace Prize. But the militants threaten to kill her should she dare return home from Britain to Pakistan, and the principal at her old school says that as Malala's fame has grown, so has fear in her classrooms. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) ( Pakistan Malala )
A copy of the memoirs of Pakistani child activist Malala Yousafzai is pictured in a bookstore in Islamabad on October 8, 2013. Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai tells of the moment she was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education in her new autobiography out on October 8, amid speculation that she may be about to become the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Co-written with British journalist Christina Lamb, "I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban" tells of the 16-year-old's terror as two gunmen boarded her schoolbus on October 9, 2012 and shot her in the head. AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images ( 523608733 )
A customer holds a copy of the memoirs of Pakistani child activist Malala Yousafzai at a bookstore in Islamabad on October 8, 2013. Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai tells of the moment she was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education in her new autobiography out on October 8, amid speculation that she may be about to become the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Co-written with British journalist Christina Lamb, "I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban" tells of the 16-year-old's terror as two gunmen boarded her schoolbus on October 9, 2012 and shot her in the head. AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images ( 523608714 )
Pakistani students hold pictures of 14-year-old schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, who was shot last Tuesday by the Taliban for speaking out in support of education for women, during a protest condemning the attack, in Karachi, Pakistan, on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan) ( APTOPIX Pakistan Malala )
Pakistani children peek through a door as they attend class in a school in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. Malala Yousufzai's battle for girls' education began when she was barely 11 years old and at a time when the Taliban roamed freely throughout the valley, blowing up schools, beheading security forces and leaving their dismembered bodies in the town square. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) ( Pakistan Malala Shooting )
A Pakistani schoolgirl holds the hand of a relative as they walk down a road following the end of class in Mingora, a town in Swat valley, on October 9, 2013, the first anniversary of the shooting of Malala Yousafzai by the Taliban. Yousafzai, the teenage activist nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, says she has not done enough to deserve the award, as her old school closed October 9 to mark the first anniversary of her shooting by the Taliban. A Majeed/AFP/Getty Images ( 523637322 )
Pakistani children on their way to school in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. A year ago Pakistani girl Malala Yousufzai was shot in the head by a Taliban attacker in Mingora on her way home from school. Malala remains in Britain and her assailant is still at large, police say the case is closed. Many Pakistanis publicly wonder whether the shooting was staged to create a hero for the West to embrace. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) ( Pakistan Malala Shooting )
Pakistani children crowd on a bus after being picked up from school in Wajah Khiel, Swat Valley, Pakistan on Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. Malala Yousufzai's battle for girls' education began when she was barely 11 years old and at a time when the Taliban roamed freely throughout the valley, blowing up schools, beheading security forces and leaving their dismembered bodies in the town square. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) ( Pakistan Malala Shooting )
Malala Yousafzai (C) receives the Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award for 2013 from U2 singer Bono (R) as Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International looks on during the Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Awards at the Manison House in Dublin, Ireland on September 17, 2013. The Ambassador of Conscience Award is Amnesty International's highest honor, recognizing individuals who have promoted and enhanced the cause of human rights through their life and by example. Malala Yousafzai, 16, is an advocate for equal access to education. In 2012 she was shot and severely wounded in an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban. PETER MUHLY/AFP/Getty Images ( 522972882 )
Malala Yousafzai addresses the assembly before receiving the Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award for 2013 in Dublin, Ireland on September 17, 2013. The Ambassador of Conscience Award is Amnesty International's highest honor, recognizing individuals who have promoted and enhanced the cause of human rights through their life and by example. Malala Yousafzai, 16, is an advocate for equal access to education. In 2012 she was shot and severely wounded in an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban. PETER MUHLY/AFP/Getty Images ( 522974000 )
A visitor looks at a painting of education activist Malala Yousafzai by artist Jonathan Yeo at the National Portrait Gallery on September 10, 2013 in London, England. The exhibition of celebrity portraits includes the first painted portrait of education activist Malala Yousafzai and will run from September 10, 2013 - January 5, 2014. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) ( 180205307 )
A painting by artist Jonathan Yeo depicts the teenager education activist Malala Yousafzai, doing her homework. The artwork of Yousafzai went on display Wednesday Sept. 11, at the National Gallery in London, as part of a retrospective of the artist's works. Yousafzai, then 15 years old, was shot by the Taliban as she traveled to school in northwest Pakistan in October 2012, and was transferred to England for medical treatment and reconstructive surgery, where she was painted by Yeo just months after the attack. (AP Photo / Jonathan Yeo, British National Portrait Gallery) ( Britain Malala )
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