Gordon Brown lauds 'brave' Malala for blunting terrorists' bullets

Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has written in his column that the courage of a wonderful girl in the form of Malala Yousafzai had forced an entire army of terrorists onto the back foot, and Pakistan could not achieve its full potential until girls and boys were educated.

The United Nations Special Envoy on Global Education said that the Taliban was now on the defensive after admitting that their attempt to assassinate Malala had been counterproductive, adding that it was a remarkable twist of history.

Brown said that the only education the Taliban favoured was indoctrination and the only form of government they embraced was theocratic.

The former UK PM slammed the fact that in the last few weeks alone, 14 young women had been blown up when the bus carrying them from college was firebombed and a school principal was shot dead in the playground of an all-girls school in Karachi, along with the gunning down of a teacher in front of her son as she drove to teach at a female college.

Brown said that the atrocities testified the continued war against education and Taliban's words will not be believed unless they stopped bombing schools, killing teachers and massacring girls.