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Diane Sawyer to host first televised interview with Malala Yousafzai

Wed, 01 May 2013 19:52:00 +0000

Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani girl who became an international icon for women's rights after surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban, will speak to "ABC World News" anchor Diane Sawyer in her first televised interview.

The interview will air in October 2013, marking the one-year anniversary of the Taliban's attempt on her life. BBC’s Mishal Husain will also interview Malala in partnership with ABC News. Per the press release, the broadcast of the interviews will be coordinated with the publication of Yousafzai's upcoming memoir, “I Am Malala."

Malala responding well to treatment

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:32:00 +0000

LONDON (AP) — The British hospital treating a 15-year-old Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban raised hopes for her recovery Friday when doctors said she was able to stand with some help and to write.

In the first photographs released by the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham since she arrived from Pakistan on Monday, Malala Yousafzai appeared with her eyes open and alert as she lay in a hospital bed.

It was a series of positive developments since the shooting, which was a brazen bid by the Taliban to silence the girl, who has been an outspoken advocate for girls' eduction rights.

Still, doctors said she shows signs of infection and faces a long, difficult recovery with uncertain prospects.

"She is not out of the woods yet," hospital medical director Dr. Dave Rosser said. "Having said that, she's doing very well. In fact, she was standing with some help for the first time this morning when I went in to see her."

He said Malala had agreed to the release of medical information and photos and that she wants to thank people throughout the world for their interest and support in the difficult days since she was gunned down in Pakistan.

He said her bullet wound has become infected.

Anger spreads over shooting of 14-year-old girl

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:49:00 +0000

Surgeons in Pakistan successfully removed a bullet from the head of 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai, a campaigner for girls' rights. The schoolgirl was targeted by Taliban militants for her activism promoting education for women. She remains unconscious but stable in a Peshawar hospital as of Wednesday.

Meanwhile, as the New York Times reported, her attack has provoked anger across Pakistan and the world. The information minister of her province has offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of her attackers, while politicians and military leaders have united in condemnation of the shooting. The Times noted:

Some commentators wondered whether the shooting would galvanize public opinion against the Taliban in the same way as a video that aired in 2009, showing a Taliban fighter flogging a teenage girl in Swat, had primed public opinion for a large military offensive against the militants that summer.