The attack news on Mala Yousufzaie, a 14 year old Pakistani schoolgirl and teenage rights activist, has featured most of the daily coverage of news papers in Pakistan. Mala was shot on the head on Tuesday, Oct 02, 2012 in Mingora by Pakistani Taliban militants.
She had critical condition during the past few days, but recently it has been reported that she is out of danger and her condition is satisfactory. The human rights organizations all over the world and crowds of women chanting the slogans of anti-women violence have been marching on the streets condemning the incident.
Since the children, particularly girls in Afghanistan have been paying the huge cost of Taliban insurgencies, "around 9.5 million students all over the country in 15,500 schools and education centers offered prayers for her quick recovery," education ministry spokesman Amanullah Iman told AFP in order to show their sympathy to Malala Yousufzai "The students also expressed their solidarity to their sister (Malala) because the attack on her was an attack on education," he said.
"Malala is just a girl and student like us, she shouldn't have been shot," Freshta, a 10 grade pupil told AFP. "Today we recited Quran and prayed for her recovery," she said. The show of solidarity to Malala comes two days after armed men attacked a girls' school in relatively peaceful Bamyan province in central Afghanistan, causing considerable damage but no injuries, official said.
During the last ten years, it is not for the first time that Taliban militants are targeting school girls, but it is the first practice they have done in Pakistan. There have been many inhuman poison targeted attacks on Afghan schools girls for the last ten years.
Considering the sympathy shown to Malala Yousufzai by our school girls, our sisters on the other side of the border have never taken such an initiations denouncing and supporting their Afghani fellow sisters. The initiations of condemning and arranging praying ceremony for quick and safe recovery of their Pakistani sister is appreciable and hope to experience the same initiations by our Pakistani sisters in the future.
Afghan schools girls have long been paying the price of insurgencies, but unfortunately no media and human rights activists have deeply analyzed the incidents showing sympathy to them and protecting their basic rights of getting education.