** FILE ** Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot ... more >The teenage Pakistani girl who was shot in the head by a Taliban member for advocating education for females is now back in school.
Malala Yousafzai, 15, was shot point-blank by a Taliban gunman in October. She’s been recovering in England for months. And Tuesday, she returned to school, United Press International reports.
“I am so excited that today I have achieved my dream of going back to school,” she said, in the UPI report. “I want all girls in the world to have this basic opportunity.”
She is attending school at Edgbaston High School for Girls in Birmingham and said she missed her “classmates from Pakistan very much.”
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Cheryl Chumley is a continuous news writer for The Washington Times. Previously, she was part of the start-up team for The Washington Times’ digital aggregation product, Times247. She’s also a 2008-2009 Robert Novak journalism fellow with The Phillips Foundation. She can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.
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