With her pen , 11-year - old Pakistani Tuba ##ida takes on the threat of the Taliban . With her pen , Tuba is taking on the swords of the Taliban . She crafts poems on children in Pakistan targeted by hard - core Islamic militants . Girls have been banned from school , their books confiscated , as militants wage war . Trying to be silent , despite the danger , she regularly speaks out in the street .
With her pen , 11-year - old Pakistani Tuba ##ida takes on the threat of the Taliban . She crafts poems on children in Pakistan targeted by hard - core Islamic militants . Girls have been banned from school , their books confiscated , as militants wage war . Trying to be silent , despite the danger , she regularly speaks out in the street .