The girl, who defied death to go to school, says she isn’t scared of new threats from the Taliban. Malala Yousafzai in an exclusive interview with NDTV, says she is “scared of ghosts, not Taliban” She is only 16 but brave and wise well beyond her years. Malala Yousafzai, a global icon for world leaders and citizens alike, says she sees herself just as an ordinary teenage girl. Speaking in her first interview with an Indian media network, Malala said her world may have changed but she has not. Recounting the horror of being shot at point blank, a bullet almost going through her brain – all because she spoke up for the rights of young girls to go to school, Malala said her first thought waking up in a hospital in Birmingham was how she or her family would pay for the treatment. What if the Taliban targets her life again? Malala says she isn’t scared by their new threats. “I may be scared of ghosts,” she told NDTV, “never of the Taliban.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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