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Malala Yousafzai received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014
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The situation in Afghanistan is getting worse, with dramatic scenes taking place at the airport in the capital Kabul.
Malala Yousafzai is one of the people who is closely following what is happening in the country.
The Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize laureate was shocked by the latest developments following the takeover of power by the militant Islamist Taliban.
In a blog post that she published on Twitter, she reported in detail about her recovery process from the headshot she suffered when she was 15 years old by the Taliban in her home country.
She recently had her sixth operation in the US metropolis of Boston, said the 24-year-old.
"Nine years later, I'm still recovering from a single bullet." The people of Afghanistan have received millions of bullets in the past four decades.
She added, "My heart breaks for those whose names we will forget or will never know, whose cries for help are not answered."
Graduated from Oxford
On Tuesday, US President Joe Biden confirmed the end of the US military operation in Afghanistan and thus the imminent end of the western rescue mission in the country. It is expected that many people will be left behind who fear for their lives because of possible reprisals by the Taliban.
Malala Yousafzai was the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for her commitment to the right of all children to education.
She survived an attack in October 2012 after Taliban fighters stopped her school bus in northern Pakistan.
She had campaigned for girls to go to school.
Many Pakistanis celebrated her when she visited Pakistan for the first time since the attack in 2018.
But she is hostile in conservative circles in her homeland.
They see in her an "agent of the West" whose mission it is to expose Pakistan.
Today she lives in the UK.
She graduated from Oxford University just a year ago.
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