"To the world, Malala is the girl who stood up to the Taliban.
"At home in Pakistan, she has also shown that a child from the Pashtun ethnic group, hailing from a rural town, can breach the boundaries of class, age and ethnicity to change her world.
"“Malala can become a leader and tell us that is not just the case that elders should have the right to speak,” [Syed Irfan Ashraf, a columnist for Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper and an anti-Taliban activist] said. “It is not the case that a lady should stay home, or a girl should be married at 14, no. Even if she changes two people, for me she has justified her struggle.”"
Full article: Malala Yousafzai, schoolgirl shot by Taliban, to speak at UN | Toronto Star
