{{Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who the Taliban tried to murder, is asking a graduate school not to name its institution after her.}}<\/p>\n
Girls were afraid that attending the Malala Yousafzai Post Graduate College for Women in the Taliban-dominated Swat Valley would attract the attention of fighters like the ones who gunned down Malala and two other girls on a school bus in October, according to Kamran Rehman Khan, a top official in the Swat Valley.<\/p>\n
The Saidu Sharif Post Graduate School briefly changed its name to recognize Malala’s brave campaign for girls’ education in Pakistan. <\/p>\n
The Taliban are against girls being in the classroom and have threatened to kill anyone who defies them.<\/p>\n
Several students told Khan that they respect Malala but are concerned about their safety, he said.<\/p>\n
Malala called Khan Monday evening from her hospital room in England where she’s recovering from bullet wounds to her head and neck. <\/p>\n
She wants the school to remove her name, but she wishes for people to continue to fight for girls to go to school, he said.<\/p>\n
“I was so impressed that despite having threats against her life, she was talking about girls’ education in the region and against militants,” Khan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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