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    Taliban shoot teenage Pakistani girl activist outside school

    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/10...girl-activist/

    MINGORA, Pakistan – A Taliban gunman walked up to a bus taking children home from school in Pakistan's volatile Swat Valley on Tuesday and shot and wounded a 14-year-old activist known for championing the education of girls and publicizing atrocities committed by the Taliban, officials said.


    The attack in the city of Mingora targeted 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai, who is widely respected for her work to promote the schooling of girls -- something that the Taliban strongly opposes. She was nominated last year for the International Children's Peace Prize.


    The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, calling Malala's work "obscenity."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Obvious View Post
    3 men have been arrested and Pakistanis are up in arms about the shooting.. Further, girls all over Pakistan have rallied to her cause.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shaarona View Post
    3 men have been arrested and Pakistanis are up in arms about the shooting.. Further, girls all over Pakistan have rallied to her cause.
    Woo Woo

    If the Pakistanis wanted to they could crush the Taliban.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hanger4 View Post
    Woo Woo

    If the Pakistanis wanted to they could crush the Taliban.
    Pakistan is very poor and very fractured into competing factions.. Has been since 1947.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shaarona View Post
    3 men have been arrested and Pakistanis are up in arms about the shooting.. Further, girls all over Pakistan have rallied to her cause.
    What girls? You know they will be killed if they speak up. Many families are scared to go get their dead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by roadmaster View Post
    What girls? You know they will be killed if they speak up. Many families are scared to go get their dead.
    There's a reason why the Taliban chose Pakistan to hide. They wouldn't be tolerated in Turkey and India would arrest them...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fearandloathing View Post
    There's a reason why the Taliban chose Pakistan to hide. They wouldn't be tolerated in Turkey and India would arrest them...
    There is a lot of Islamofacist sympathy in Pakistan.

    Just ask the guy who made that Mohammad film.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Obvious View Post
    There is a lot of Islamofacist sympathy in Pakistan.

    Just ask the guy who made that Mohammad film.



    Good one! Rare from you, but real good.


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    Teen recovers; $1M bounty offered...

    As teen recovers from Taliban hit, Pakistanis demand answers
    October 16, 2012 -- Interior Minister offers $1 million bounty for Pakistani Taliban spokesman; Teen blogger arrives in Britain for treatment; Malala Yousufzai has galvanized worldwide support for girls' education; Malala was shot by Taliban gunmen who were enraged that she wanted an education
    A Pakistani teenage activist shot in the head by the Taliban for demanding an education has left her beloved country for specialized medical treatment in Britain. The Taliban's attempted assassination last week of Malala Yousufzai, 14, has sparked outrage inside Pakistan and around the world, transforming the young blogger into an international symbol of defiance against the radical Islamist group that continues to wield influence in parts of Pakistan.

    After Tuesday's attack, Malala was treated immediately by Pakistani doctors who later removed a bullet lodged in her neck. She was airlifted Monday to a hospital in Birmingham, England, that treats the country's war casualties. There she will be treated by neurosurgery specialists. Her recovery could take months, doctors said. Authorities in Pakistan said they are moving forward with their investigation into the attack. The country's interior minister, Rehman Malik, offered a $1 million bounty Monday for Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan.

    Most Pakistanis consider the Taliban murderous ideologues, and the young girl's willingness to risk her life to attend school -- despite the Taliban's opposition to education for girls-- has struck a nerve. One of the largest rallies supporting Malala took place Sunday in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, where men, women and their children held signs that said, "Shame on you, Taliban." Others held signs condemning terrorism.

    Massive posters and billboards said, "Malala, our prayers are with you." At another rally in the capital of Islamabad, protesters held candles and prayed for the girl's recovery. Malala began gaining international attention in 2009 as the Taliban gained a foothold in her home region of Swat, a Taliban-heavy valley in northwest Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan. Malala's father operated one of the few schools that defied the Taliban by keeping its doors open to girls.

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    Afghanistan had problems with Taliban first...

    As world helps shot Pakistani girl, Afghans ask "what about us?"
    Sun Oct 21, 2012 - The global attention bestowed on a Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban has sparked outcry amongst many Afghans dismayed by what they say is the unequal response to the plight of their women and children.
    Malala Yousufzai, shot by Taliban gunmen for advocating girls' education, was flown from Pakistan to Britain to receive treatment after the attack this month which drew widespread condemnation and an international outpouring of support. "Every day an Afghan girl is abused, raped, has acid thrown on her face and mutilated. Yet no one remembers or acknowledges these girls," Elay Ershad, who represents the nomadic Kuchi people in Afghan parliament, told Reuters.

    Echoing concerns of other prominent Afghan women, Ershad said the government took no real interest in women's rights, instead using the issue for political gain and currying favor with Western backers, a claim Kabul has dismissed as untrue. President Hamid Karzai has repeatedly condemned Yousufzai's shooting, even using it to address women's rights in his country: "The people of Afghanistan ... see this attempt not only against (Yousufzai) but also against all Afghan girls," he said last week.

    The closest Karzai has come this year to condemning violence against women in Afghanistan, as seen on the scale he has done with Yousufzai, was in July when gunmen publicly executed a 22-year-old woman, named Najiba, for alleged adultery, which prompted an international outcry. "If the president does not care about Afghan women in general, why does he suddenly care about Malala?" Ershad asked. "No one (here) ever seeks justice once the television cameras are turned off."

    The United Arab Emirates provided the plane taking Yousufzai to Britain, while British officials said the Pakistani government was footing the bill for her lengthy treatment in Birmingham. Karzai has told Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari that the attack was proof the two needed to tackle a common enemy, a move widely seen as an attempt to soothe ties between the neighbors amid bickering over Pakistani shelling across the countries' lawless border.

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