Excerpts (translated) from whose diary:
Today, I also read the diary written for the BBC (in Urdu) and published in the newspaper. My mother liked my pen name 'Gul Makai' and said to my father 'why not change her name to Gul Makai?' I also like the name because my real name means 'grief stricken'.
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Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl from Taliban-affected Swat district, who was shot by the Taliban for her views. She used to write a blog for BBC Urdu.
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