Malala Yousafzai supports the Taliban.
Malala Yousafzai . She is known for human rights advocacy , especially education of women in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , northwest Pakistan , where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school . In early 2009 , when she was 11 -- 12 , she wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC Urdu detailing her life during the Taliban occupation of Swat . On the afternoon of 9 October 2012 , Yousafzai was injured after a Taliban gunman attempted to murder her .