Time Person of the Year 2012 Runner-Up: Malala Yousafzai, the Fighter

Time: Ayesha Mir didn’t go to school on Tuesday, Nov. 27, the day after a security guard found a shrapnel-packed bomb under her family’s car. The 17-year-old Pakistani girl assumed, as did most people who learned about the bomb, that it was intended for her father, the television news presenter Hamid Mir, who often takes on the Taliban in his nightly news broadcasts. Traumatized by the near miss, Ayesha spent most of the day curled up in a corner of her couch, unsure whom to be angrier with: the would-be assassins or her father for putting himself in danger. She desperately wanted someone to help her make sense of things.

At around 10:30 p.m., she got her wish. Ayesha’s father had just come home from work, and he handed her his BlackBerry. “She wants to speak to you,” he said. The voice on the phone was weak and cracked, but it still carried the confidence that Ayesha and millions of other Pakistanis had come to know through several high-profile speeches and TV appearances.

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  1. I wonder how pro Taliban Hamid Mir has connected himself with Taliban-fighter Malala Yousufzai. Taliban have always soft corner for him. He is a person who claims to have interviewed Asama Bin Laden, a hero of Taliban. He is the pereson with whose connivance khawaja Sahib were killed by Taliban. According to my assessment he is an apportunist. He is fame hungry. Being the clever son of a clever father he has now changed his affiliations. I am sorry to say but according to my assessment his car-bomb drama seems to be also his own minds planning.

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