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In Swat, a girls’ school gripped by fear
Fellow pupils voice support for the cause of Malala Yousafzai, shot in the head by the Taliban because she advocated a girl’s right to attend schoolUnder a portrait of Sir Isaac Newton, the ninth-grade girls clasped their chemistry texts, smoothed their white headscarves and movingly voiced support for the cause of their classmate, Malala Yousafzai, shot in the head by the Taliban because she advocated a girl’s right to attend school. “In our hearts is the thirst for education,” one 14-year-old told reporters brought to her classroom by the Pakistani military’s public relations wing last Monday.
published date:Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:59:05 GMT
