Eleven-Year-Old Uses Her Pen to Fight Taliban Swords

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.





“I want to give peace to my nation,” Tuba Sahaab says, “I will fight for it.”

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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 parts of Pakistan.