All 47 Uses of "militant" in "I Am Malala" - Curated

I spent my seventeenth birthday in Nigeria, showing solidarity with the schoolgirls abducted from their dormitory in the dead of night by Boko Haram militants in April.

p. xviii.4

militants = people who use violent methods to achieve a political goal

He found himself torn between the two extremes, secularism and socialism on one side and militant Islam on the other.

p. 35.3

militant = using extreme or violent methods

Then 9/11 had made this militancy more mainstream.

p. 97.1

militancy = use of violent actions to achieve a political goal

The Americans claimed that al-Qaeda militants who had fled from Afghanistan during the US bombing were using the areas as a safe haven, taking advantage of our Pashtun hospitality.

p. 98.9

militants = people who use violent methods to achieve a political goal

Not only did our army and ISI have long links with some of the militants, but it also meant our troops would be fighting their own Pashtun brothers.

p. 99.8

They retreated after just twelve days and reached what they called a "negotiated peace settlement" with local militant leaders like Nek Mohammad.

p. 100.1

militant = using violent methods to achieve a political goal

The militants simply used the cash to buy more weapons and resumed their activities.

p. 100.1

militants = people who use violent methods to achieve a political goal

Across the tribal areas people were angry and many joined militant groups or formed lashkars, local militias.

p. 100.5

militant = using violent methods to achieve a political goal

Let's put out the flames of militancy before they reach here.

p. 101.3

militancy = the use of violent actions to achieve a political goal

Sufi Mohammad had been in jail since 2002 when Musharraf arrested a number of militant leaders after American pressure, but his organization still continued and was being run by his son-in-law Maulana Fazlullah.

p. 105.4

militant = using violence to achieve a political goal

Most of the volunteers came from Islamic charities or organizations, but some of these were fronts for militant groups.

p. 106.2

When Sufi Mohammad was imprisoned in a round-up of militant leaders in 2002, Fazlullah had taken over the movement's leadership.

p. 112.2

My father's friend Hidayatullah had become a government official in Peshawar and warned us, "This is how these militants work."

p. 115.4

militants = people who use violent methods to achieve a political goal

At that time suicide bombings were rare in Pakistan—there were six in total that year—and it was the biggest attack that had ever been carried out by Pakistani militants.

p. 121.1

The militants would enter villages with megaphones and the police would flee.

p. 125.1

"I have no militants and no FM radio," he joked.

p. 125.4

Their militants kidnapped policemen and ransacked government buildings.

p. 127.2

But by the middle of 2007 the situation was so bad that people began to worry the militants could take over the capital.

p. 127.3

Many of the militants in the mosque had fought in Afghanistan or Kashmir.

p. 127.7

But his wife and younger brother stayed inside, along with many students, and there were daily exchanges of gunfire between the militants and the troops outside.

p. 128.1

The militants had RPGs and petrol bombs made from Sprite bottles.

p. 128.1

She was also our only political leader to speak out against the militants and even offered to help American troops hunt for bin Laden inside Pakistani borders.

p. 129.6

I had gone to bed when just before midnight the militants struck.

p. 130.1

The military said it had killed more than a hundred militants, but then on the first day of November around 700 Taliban overran an army position at Khwazakhela.

p. 131.5

The militants did not give up easily.

p. 132.2

The militants fled to the forests and by early December the army said they had cleared most areas.

p. 132.5

All across northwestern Pakistan different militant groups had emerged led by people from various tribal groups.

p. 132.7

militant = using violence to achieve a political goal

"We will defeat the forces of extremism and militancy with the power of the people," she declared to loud cheers.

p. 133.2

militancy = use of violent actions to achieve a political goal

Musharraf blamed Benazir's death on Baitullah Mehsud, the TTP leader, and released a transcript of an intercepted phone call that was supposed to be between him and a fellow militant discussing the attack.

p. 133.9

militant = person who uses violence to achieve a political goal

A group of us girls gave an interview on ATV Khyber, the only privately owned Pashto television channel, and on Dawn TV about girls dropping out of school due to militancy.

p. 141.3

militancy = the use of violent actions to achieve a political goal

The next morning we learned that masked militants had entered the Sangota Convent School For girls and the Excelsior College for boys and blown them up using improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

p. 142.9

militants = people who use violent methods to achieve a political goal

Our neighbors said the Taliban were instructing people to make it known to the mosque if their daughters were unmarried so they could be married off, probably to militants.

p. 157.7

The government had agreed to impose sharia law throughout Swat and in return the militants would stop fighting.

p. 167.2 *

In our case it happened to be a white-bearded militant called Sufi Mohammad.

p. 169.2

militant = person who uses violence to achieve a political goal

There were several senior Taliban commanders with armed escorts including Muslim Khan, and even Faqir Mohammad, the leader of the militants in Bajaur, who were in the middle of a bloody fight with the army.

p. 171.3

militants = people who use violent methods to achieve a political goal

Rather than trying to extinguish the fires of militancy, he only added fuel to the flames.

p. 172.9

militancy = the use of violent actions to achieve a political goal

At one the information minister for our province said Talibanization was the result of our country's policy of training militants and sending them to Afghanistan, first to fight the Russians, then to fight the Americans.

p. 173.6

militants = people who use violent methods to achieve a political goal

As the militants arrived with their RPGs and guns, the police abandoned their posts, saying the Taliban had "superior weapons," and people fled.

p. 174.1

Militants had killed Benazir, blown up the country's best-known hotel, killed thousands of people in suicide bombings and beheadings and destroyed hundreds of schools.

p. 174.5

We had seen pictures of how the army had flattened everything in an operation against militants in Bajaur and we thought everything we knew would be destroyed.

p. 178.9

In some ways the army did not seem very different from the militants.

p. 192.3

People across Pakistan were glued to a series on prime-time TV called Beyond the Call of Duty, which was supposed to consist of real-life stories of soldiers battling militants in Swat.

p. 206.3

He was said to be spying on a militant group called Lashkar-e-Taiba based in Lahore that had helped our people a lot during the earthquake and floods.

p. 210.2

militant = using violent methods to achieve a political goal

But whereas in 2008-9 there were many threats to all sorts of people, this time the threats were specific to those who spoke against militants or the high-handed behavior of the army.

p. 231.9

militants = people who use violent methods to achieve a political goal

"What we need to know is who imposed these militants on us," he wrote.

p. 234.7

Peshawar is the gateway to the FATA and since the army went into those areas in 2004 to take on the militants, the hospital had been very busy tending wounded soldiers and victims of the frequent suicide bombs in and around the city.

p. 250.6

To us that referred to how the authorities in Pakistan had initially used the militants and now were in a mess of their own making.

p. 295.8

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