Just leave it in my cupboard. When he finally found my father, he learned that he had heard a woman crying that her husband was trapped in their house and he had rushed in to save him. My father felt he had lost his chance and would end up like his brother teaching in a local school. When I was three or four I was placed in classes for much older children. When they were taken in to see the pir, he instructed my father to open his mouth and then spat into it. It is regularly updated with new . Most Pakistanis are Sunnis like us more than eighty per cent but within that we are again many groups. Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes). He said they had told him, Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists, and threatened to bomb us back to the Stone Age if we stood against them. If you look at a map of Swat youll see it is one long valley with little valleys we call darae off to the sides like the branches of a tree. Many were slaughtered on trains which arrived at Lahore and Delhi full of bloodied corpses. It was always a race between us and the birds to get to them. On top of some of the peaks were ruins where vultures circled, the remains of forts built by the first wali. Do you need to see if your students understood what they read? They were very involved in local politics, belonged to secular nationalist parties and were against involvement in the war. The temples are long gone, but almost anywhere you go in Swat, amid all the primroses and other wild flowers, you find their remains. I was so nervous before the speech, I was trembling with fear. Who is Malala? he demanded. My grandfather had come to watch and I knew he really wanted me to win the competition, which made me even more nervous. Suduiko, Aaron ed. I wished I had her white-lily skin, fine features and green eyes, but instead had inherited the sallow complexion, wide nose and brown eyes of my father. I wore more fashionable clothes and didnt cover my face even when I became a teenager. And so did many foreigners, all of whom we called angrezan English wherever they came from. One of their most heated debates in that first year was over a novel. Malala's skull had pressure: her brain was swelling and in order to make room for it they needed to remove some of her skull. When he was a child he thought this small valley was the entire world and that if anyone went beyond the point where either mountain kissed the sky, they would fall off. They had no idea how they would manage. My brothers loved this, and they would taunt me and my mother by pointing out the wreckage of vehicles on the mountainside. There would be bowls of chicken, rice, local spinach and spicy mutton, all cooked over the fire by the women, followed by plates of crunchy apples, slices of yellow cake and a big kettle of milky tea. Her grandmother my great-grandmother was widowed when her children were young, and her eldest son Janser Khan was locked up because of a tribal feud with another family when he was only nine. There was one big problem. We Yousafzai (which some people spell Yusufzai or Yousufzai) are originally from Kandahar and are one of the biggest Pashtun tribes, spread across Pakistan and Afghanistan. I am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Within an hour of the announcement on television of Musharraf s sacking, tanks were on the streets and troops had taken over the newsrooms and the airports. I didnt like walking near it as it smelt so bad. We live as we have for centuries by a code called Pashtunwali, which obliges us to give hospitality to all guests and in which the most important value is nang or honour. Shehnaz had never been to school, so even though she was two years older than me she was put two classes below, and she came to live with us so that I could help her. There was no hospital. A few more minutes, Aba, please, Id beg, then burrow deeper under the quilt. Our history textbooks were rewritten to describe Pakistan as a fortress of Islam, which made it seem as if we had existed far longer than since 1947, and denounced Hindus and Jews. You could say I grew up in a school. The Taliban have never come for a small girl. When our bus was called, we ran down the steps. Time to get up, Jani mun, he would say. The journey took at least five hours by road over the Malakand Pass, a vast bowl of mountains where long ago our ancestors led by a preacher called Mullah Saidullah (known by the British as the Mad Fakir) battled British forces among the craggy peaks. When he was at college and had no money for food or books many of his friends helped him out and he never forgot that. Contact us Sahib, he told him, I have a cousin who is ten years older than me and you have certified him ten years younger. So the minister said, OK, Maulana, what shall I write down for you? Look after your own affairs. But some of the Includes 24 multiple choice questions on context clues, content, figurative language, and three text-dependent questions. Billions of dollars flowed into our exchequer from the United States and other Western countries, as well as weapons to help the ISI train the Afghans to fight the communist Red Army. Yet she too got angry with him once. I wont tell anyone. hbbd``b`aN@/ $@, $$| At the end of the speech there were cheers and applause. Each khan kept hundreds of armed men both for feuds and to raid and loot other villages. It was a peculiar system called wesh under which every five or ten years all the families would swap villages and redistribute the land of the new village among the men so that everyone had the chance to work on good as well as bad land. Up there we were higher than the rocky peaks all around us. It didnt even have its own building. I didnt take them. But she knew I had. Just as we say, Nim hakim khatrai jan Half a doctor is a danger to ones life, so, Nim mullah khatrai iman A mullah who is not fully learned is a danger to faith, he said. We dont respect privacy and there is no such thing as making an appointment to see someone. O)=[I~s9$m9!I My father and a friend had founded their first school and we lived in a shabby shack of two rooms opposite the school. A pink plastic barrette C. A pink plastic . It felt as if my honour was at stake for five rupees, he told me. Swat became part of Pakistan in 1969, the year my father was born. It is for those forgotten children who want education. You are the ones educating their children. He soon became president of the organisation and expanded it until it included 400 principals. When I was born we were very poor. The sides of Swat buses are painted with scenes of bright pink and yellow flowers, neon-orange tigers and snowy mountains. What had prompted the attack on Zahid Khan? There was no other college in Shangla, and if he didnt go to college, he would never be able to move Every day his fellow activists came to the shack or the school for lunch. Questions could be adapted for the young readers edition. Everyone wanted me in their family as I was from Mingora and modern. Together we will be heard. The cooler days were late coming and only the faraway mountains of the Hindu Kush had a frosting of snow. I also stopped wearing jewellery because I asked myself, What are these baubles which tempt me? But my father has always been a romantic rather than a businessman and in the meantime he and Hidayatullah were in such desperate straits that they ran out of credit with the local shopkeeper and could not even buy tea or sugar. Some were in the newspapers, some were notes or messages passed on by people. The journey usually took about five hours as long as the road had not been washed away by rains or landslides, and the Flying Coach left early in the morning. Hidayatullah was horrified when my father returned to Mingora with a wife. By doing so, Malala added to my cultural awareness and illuminated a world about which I had known very little. "inLanguage": "en", on the Internet. Baba had beautiful handwriting and my father would spend hours painstakingly drawing letters but Baba never once praised him. Why did Colonel Junaid decide to operate? She saw their men were losing, and when the flag-bearer fell she lifted her white veil up high and marched onto the battlefield in front of the troops. Wed love to have you back! If he accidentally drew a snake he could erase it and the snake would disappear. Safina is younger than you and you should have taught her better, she said. Surely God would find it there. Our ancestors came to Swat in the sixteenth century from Kabul, where they had helped a Timurid %%EOF Wed lived on the same street when we were little and been friends since primary school and we shared everything, Justin Bieber songs and Twilight movies, the best face-lightening creams. Under Zias regime life for women in Pakistan became much more restricted. web pages Moniba spoke well she was very composed and her speech was more emotional and poetic than mine, though mine might have had the better message. How long it takes will really. My brothers liked it if we got one with F-16 fighter jets or nuclear missiles, though my father said if our politicians hadnt spent so much money on building an atomic bomb we might have had enough for schools. Quizzes with auto-grading, and real-time student data. The bus strained and laboured, the driver cursing as trucks overtook us on blind bends with steep drops below. And me, her beauty, he laughs. Check Pages 1-50 of I am Malala in the flip PDF version. Dont have an account? It was always our mother who shopped for our clothes and took us to hospital if we were ill, even though in our culture, particularly for those of us from villages, a woman is not supposed to do these things alone. But then I felt guilty as I knew we were lucky. I didnt agree. Even in summer its frosted with snow. We Pashtuns are split between Pakistan and Afghanistan and dont really recognise the border that the British drew more than 100 years ago. Ziauddin is as clean as an egg with no hair, she said. My father seemed worried and shooed us into the other room, but the house was small so we could hear every word. My father told him he had just finished school and had won a college place at Jehanzeb. xX{p[W?+d,e+(6mgRHMo2$m,S:litffS2s$;6-t|sw %D"sw x}4c%l3|pNe%bvgn?J> KZ~;^knBg/Uk?M}%~|kq.*}9\#N They borrowed 30,000 rupees more to repaint the building, rented a shack across the road to live in and went from door to door trying to find students. It was, he says, a kind of brainwashing. Here a girl can go to school, I used to say. Anyone reading them might think we won the three wars we have fought and lost against our great enemy India. A stutter was a terrible thing for a man who so loved words and poetry. He laughed a lot, but as a boy he had been so self-conscious about being dark-skinned that he went to the fields to get buffalo milk to spread on his face, thinking it would make him lighter. The Buddhists had arrived here in the second century and their kings ruled the valley for more than 500 years. That morning we arrived in the narrow mud lane off Haji Baba Road in our usual procession of brightly painted rickshaws, sputtering diesel fumes, each one crammed with five or six girls. I never knew my grandmother, but my father says she used to joke with my grandfather, By God, just as you greet us only with a frown, when I die may God give you a wife who never smiles. My grandmother was so worried about my fathers stutter that when he was still a young boy she took him to see a holy man. His teachers and friends tried to dissuade him and his father was reluctant to write the speech for him. I could see in his eyes that I had failed him. Pa tool jehan ke da khushala da, he sang. Earn TpT credits to use for future purchases! As the day went on and the sun climbed higher in the sky, more and more of the White Mountain would be bathed in golden sun. Hidayatullah was furious. 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