Pakistani girl takes on the Taliban with her pen

By Stanley Grant, CNN

Tuba Sahaab looks nothing like a warrior. She is a slight girl of 11, living in a simple home in a suburb of Islamabad. But in Tuba's case, looks are deceiving.

With her pen, Tuba is taking on the swords of the Taliban. She crafts poems telling of the pain and suffering of children just like her; girls banned from school, their books burned, as the hard-core Islamic militants spread their reign of terror across Pakistan.

A stanza of one of her poems reads: "Tiny drops of tears, their faces like angels, Washed with blood, they sleep forever with anger."

Tuba is not afraid to express her views. Of the Taliban forcing young girls out of the classroom, she says: "This is very shocking to hear that girls can't go to school, they are taking us back to the Stone Age."

"I want to give peace to my nation," she says, "I will fight for it."

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/17/pakistan.girl.poet/index.html

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[drysift]

Very nice to know that the future generations don't believe in cutting each others noses and ears off for bullshit reasons. Hooray, for Islam 2.0!

[kakarot1132]

Tuba is my true frnd nd.. sister!!! She's the best girl who sacrifice herself to social works!!! She will definitely get noble for it.. :)

[P4Pak]

Very very cute.. Tuba is a Pure Pakistani girl who wants nothing but peace.. I like her thoughts.. Long Live Pakistan..