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Pakistan
in
I Am Malala
(Edited)

We were plucked from our mountain valley in Swat, Pakistan, and transported to a brick house in Birmingham, England's, second-biggest city.
p. xiii.2

Pakistan = a Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
The school system here is very different from the one we had in Pakistan.
p. xv.1
In Pakistan, we used to write long answers.
p. xv.1
Perhaps the expectations in Pakistan were lower because it was so challenging just to be in school.
p. xv.3
I dream that one day I will be an influential politician in Pakistan.
p. xv.8
Sadly, Maulana Fazlullah, the man who was the head of the Swat Taliban who shot me, is now the head of the whole Pakistan Taliban.
p. xv.8
Many of our friends back in Pakistan probably think we are very lucky to live in England in a nice, brick house and go to good schools.
p. xvi.9
My father is education attache for the Pakistan consulate and adviser for global education for the UN.
p. xvi.9
It would be a dream life for many young, ambitious Pakistanis.
p. xvi.9

Pakistanis = people of the Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
We discussed the United States' role in supporting dictatorships and drone attacks in countries like Pakistan.
p. xix.1

Pakistan = a Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
I have started projects in Jordan, Pakistan, Kenya and Nigeria.
p. xix.3
I was shot by a Taliban bullet and was flown out of Pakistan unconscious.
p. 3.2
Instead I am in a country which is five hours behind my beloved homeland Pakistan and my home in the Swat Valley.
p. 3.6
Pashtuns are a proud people of many tribes split between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
p. 14.2
People often call Swat the Switzerland of the East—we even had Pakistan's first ski resort.
p. 16.1
The rich people of Pakistan came on holiday to enjoy our clean air and scenery and our Sufi festivals of music and dancing.
p. 16.1
Today Swat is part of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, or KPK, as many Pakistanis call it, but Swat used to be separate from the rest of Pakistan.
p. 16.4

Pakistanis = people of the Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
Today Swat is part of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, or KPK, as many Pakistanis call it, but Swat used to be separate from the rest of Pakistan.
p. 16.4

Pakistan = a Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
When the British gave India independence in 1947 and divided it, we went with the newly created Pakistan but stayed autonomous.
p. 16.6
We used the Pakistani rupee, but the government of Pakistan could only intervene on foreign policy.
p. 16.6

Pakistani = relating to the Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
We used the Pakistani rupee, but the government of Pakistan could only intervene on foreign policy.
p. 16.6

Pakistan = a Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
We were only a hundred miles from Pakistan's capital Islamabad as the crow flies, but it felt as if it were in another country.
p. 16.7
We Yousafzai (which some people spell Yusufzai or Yousufzai) are originally from Kandahar and are one of the biggest Pashtun tribes, spread across Pakistan and Afghanistan.
p. 23.8
In 1949, two years after the creation of Pakistan, he abdicated in favor of his elder son, Miangul Abdul Haq Jehanzeb.
p. 25.5
In 1969, the year my father was born, the wali gave up power and we became part of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, which a few years ago changed its name to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
p. 25.9
So I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as Swati and then Pashtun, before Pakistani.
p. 25.9
So I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as Swati and then Pashtun, before Pakistani.
p. 25.9

Pakistani = a person of the Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
My grandfather had studied in India, where he had seen great speakers and leaders including Mohammad Ali Jinnah (the founder of Pakistan), Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, our great Pashtun leader who campaigned for independence.
p. 29.7

Pakistan = a Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
Swat became part of Pakistan in 1969, the year my father was born.
p. 30.1
Many Swatis were unhappy about this, complaining about the Pakistani justice system, which they said was much slower and less effective than their old tribal ways.
p. 30.1

Pakistani = relating to the Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
They say he was the first Pakistani leader to stand up for the common people, though he himself was a feudal lord with vast estates of mango fields.
p. 30.4
His execution shocked everybody and made Pakistan look bad all around the world.
p. 30.5

Pakistan = a Muslim republic that is the sixth most populous country and has nuclear weapons
Under Zia's regime life for women in Pakistan became much more restricted.
p. 30.9
Many of our madrasas, or religious schools, were opened at that time, and in all schools religious studies, what we call deeniyat, was replaced by Islamiyat, or Islamic studies, which children in Pakistan still have to do today.
p. 31.5
Our history textbooks were rewritten to describe Pakistan as a "fortress of Islam," which made it seem as if we had existed far longer than since 1947, and denounced Hindus and Jews.
p. 31.6
Pakistan took its place.
p. 32.2
We Pashtuns are split between Pakistan and Afghanistan and don't really recognize the border that the British drew more than 100 years ago.
p. 32.8
He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan's problems.
p. 41.5
Pakistan doesn't have student loans and he had never even set foot in a bank.
p. 42.2
My father arrived at college at an important moment in Pakistan's history.
p. 44.7
The other main students' organization was Islami Jamaat-e-Talaba, the student wing of the religious party Jamaat-e-Islami, which was powerful in many universities in Pakistan.
p. 45.3
The odd thing was no one had even noticed the publication of the book to start with—it wasn't actually on sale in Pakistan—but then a series of articles appeared in Urdu newspapers by a mullah close to our intelligence service, berating the book as offensive to the Prophet, PBUH, and saying it was the duty of good Muslims to protest.
p. 45.9
Soon mullahs all over Pakistan were denouncing the book, calling for it to be banned, and angry demonstrations were held.
p. 46.1
The anger wasn't just in Pakistan.
p. 46.3
Then his nephew Aziz, who had come to help, raised the Pakistan flag.
p. 49.7
One day Hidayatullah came back from trying to enroll pupils to find my father sitting in the office talking about advertising with the local head of Pakistan TV As soon as the man had gone, Hidayatullah burst into laughter.
p. 51.6
On Pakistan's fiftieth anniversary on 14 August 1997 there were parades and commemorations throughout the country.
p. 55.4
However, my father's friend Ishan ul-Haq Haqqani organized a sit-in protest to show that there was nothing to celebrate, as Swat had only suffered since it had merged with Pakistan.
p. 55.6
Her name means "Queen of Light" and she said she wanted to be Pakistan's first female army chief.
p. 69.4
My father says that Pakistan has been cursed with more than its fair share of politicians who only think about money.
p. 74.8

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(1) (Pakistan)
a south Asian Muslim republic that is the fifth most populous country

Pakistan borders India, Afghanistan, Iran, & China.

When Great Britain granted independence to British India, two countries were created based on religious identity. India was primarily Hindu and Pakistan was predominantly Muslim.

Millions of people moved in the months after the partitioning in order to live with their religious majority. Hundreds of thousands were killed.

Pakistan was divided by India with those living to the west separated by 1,000 miles of India from those living in the east. The two Pakistani areas were called West Pakistan and East Bengal which was later called East Pakistan. In 1971 East Pakistan won its independence from West Pakistan and changed its name to Bangladesh.
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Pakistan in I Am Malala (Edited)

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