Miranshah (Pakistan):The Pakistani Taliban has said that they would try again to kill the schoolgirl campaigner Malala Yousafzai if they got the chance.Gunmen sent by the Taliban tried to kill Malala on her school bus on October 9 last year.She amazingly survived being shot in the head and has become a global ambassador for the right of all children girls as well as boys to go to school.
Having spread a message of education for all across the globe, the 16-year-old is now among the favourites for the Nobel Peace Prize, which will be awarded on Friday.
But Shahidullah Shahid, spokesman for the main Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) umbrella group, slammed Malala and said they would try again to kill her. “She is not a brave girl and has no courage. We will target her again and attack whenever we have a chance,” Shahid told sources.
She first rose to prominence during the Talibans 2007-09 rule in Pakistans northwestern Swat valley with a blog for the BBC Urdu service chronicling the rigours of daily life under the Islamists.
“She even used a fake name of Gul Makai to write a diary. We attacked Malala because she was used to speaking against Taliban and Islam and not because she was going to school,” Shahid said.
