Karzai: Taliban "can't move a finger" without Pakistan

waltky · Nov 10, 2012

Pakistan honors Malala...

Pakistanis Honor School Girl Shot by Taliban
November 10, 2012 - Pakistani students and rights activists are honoring the 15-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot and seriously wounded by the Taliban a month ago.

The United Nations designated Saturday to be "Malala Day" as a global tribute to Malala Yousafzai, who was targeted by gunmen for promoting the right of girls to attend school and for documenting Taliban atrocities. In her hometown of Mingora in the northwestern Swat Valley, hundreds of students prayed for her early recovery and vowed to continue her mission. Her supporters also gathered in Karachi and other Pakistani cities. Taliban gunmen shot Malala Yousafzai in the head and neck in the Swat Valley. She was internationally recognized for her work. She is now recovering from her wounds at a hospital in Britain.

On Friday, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown presented Pakistan's government with a petition with more than one million signatures in support of Malala. Mr. Brown, the U.N.'s envoy for global education, says a new foundation has been created to honor Malala. The Malala Foundation will do the work the teenager told her friends just weeks before she was shot that she wanted to do -- campaign for the 32 million girls around the world who are not in school.

Nearly 90,000 people have signed another petition to have Malala nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Also Friday, Malala's father paid tribute to those around the world who have shown her support. Ziauddin Yousafzai spoke from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, where Malala is being treated. He said she is recovering well and wants everyone to know she has been inspired and humbled by the thousands of cards, messages and gifts she has received.

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waltky · Dec 9, 2012

Zadari finally visits Malala...

Pakistani president visits schoolgirl activist in UK
Mon, Dec 10, 2012 - PINT-SIZED PEACE PRIZE: The 15-year-olds was shot by the Taliban for her rights campaigning and many say her efforts are deserving of the Nobel Prize for peace

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday visited the Pakistani schoolgirl recovering in a British hospital after she was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls education. Zardari also met 15-year-old Malala Yousafzais family at the specialist Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, where Malala was flown from Pakistan in October following the brutal attack on her school bus. President Zardari, accompanied by his daughter Asifa Bhutto, met with clinicians who have been treating Malala since her admission to the hospital, the hospital said in a statement. They were brought up to date on the 15-year-olds medical progress and her future treatment plan.

In an attack that shocked the world, Malala was shot in the head on Oct. 9 as punishment for the crime of campaigning for Afghan girls rights to receive an education. She miraculously survived the murder attempt, but requires reconstructive surgery because the bullet grazed her brain, coming within centimeters of killing her. Photographs released by the hospital on Saturday showed Malala sitting with Zardari and his daughter, wearing a blue headscarf and a pink jumper. She is also pictured standing with the Pakistani president, in contrast to earlier photos of her lying in her hospital bed. There have been many calls for the teenager to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, while the UN declared a global Malala Day last month to show support for her female education campaign.

Pakistan is paying for her care at the Queen Elizabeth hospital, which also treats British soldiers seriously wounded in Afghanistan. Malala has received thousands of goodwill messages from around the world and has said she is overwhelmed by the outpouring of support. She rose to prominence aged just 11, writing a blog for the BBC Urdu service describing life under the Talibans hardline rule in the Swat Valley in northwestern Pakistan. She was awarded the Pakistani governments first national peace award and was also nominated for the International Childrens Peace Prize.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2012/12/10/2003549815
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supaskip · Dec 10, 2012

skeptic-f said: ↑

It's been obvious for years (back in the second term of George Dubya) that Pakistan has been playing a double game with the USA
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This is nothing new for any country though, including the US.
Smacks of double standards really. We help our allies even though they may be regarded as the enemy by our enemies. Surely the same is true when the other way around? Really, we can't (diplomatically) have it both ways.

skeptic-f · Dec 10, 2012

supaskip said: ↑

This is nothing new for any country though, including the US.
Smacks of double standards really. We help our allies even though they may be regarded as the enemy by our enemies. Surely the same is true when the other way around? Really, we can't (diplomatically) have it both ways.
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You're missing the point. Superskip. We could never achieve our objectives in Afghanistan because Pakistan was always working against us. The double game they were playing was directly against the USA and its interests.

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