NEW DELHI, July 26 -- "Which one of you is Malala? Speak up. Otherwise I will shoot you all," the masked gunmen demanded the children travelling back home after the exam in Pakistan on Oct 9, 2012.

All kept mum. Identifying Malala, the Taliban gunman shot the 15 years old girl on her head.

Condemning the Taliban's inhuman attack, offers to treat the teenager came from around the world. After a week she was admitted in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, England.

Who is Malala? Why did the Taliban want to eliminate her?

Malala Yousafzai was born in a lower middle class family in Swat Valley of northwest Pakistan to Ziauddin and Tor Pekai Yousafzai on July 12, 1997. She and her two brothers were mostly educated by her father, a ...