This is In Conversation from Apple News. I'm Shemitabasu. Today, the Afghan women who risk

their lives to protest against the Taliban.

In the early 2000s, the Taliban's influence was spreading in Pakistan.

The Islamic fundamentalist group banned TV and music and said girls could no longer attend school.

An 11-year-old girl whose father was teacher, was heartbroken, but defiant.

She began speaking publicly about her passion for girls' education. Then one day, in October of 2012, when she was on the bus returning from school, a masked gunman stopped the bus,

asked for her by name, and shot her in the face.

She woke up 10 days later in a hospital and was told, people around the world know your name now.

Malala.

My great hope is that this will be the last time.

This will be the last time we must fight for education.

Let's solve this once and for all.

In 2014, she became the youngest person to ever be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

for her work advocating for girls and women's rights around the world.

Malala recently told me she remembers the optimism she felt around that time.

When I recovered from the Taliban attack and I received so much support from people from around the

world, I was so optimistic that this support meant that all of us are now committed to protecting

women's rights and that this will never happen again.

But if it does happen, the world will come together and stop it from happening.

But it is happening again.

This time in Afghanistan, where the Taliban has taken over after

U.S. forces withdrew from the country in 2021. In the three years since, the Taliban has

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