In a recent interview with the Agence France-Presse, a spokesman for the Pakistan Taliban, Shahidullah Shahid, said that Malala Yousafzai was still a target for them.

The 16-year-old who was attacked for advocating for the right to education for girls was shot by the Taliban on her school bus on Oct. 9 of 2012. She was rushed from Pakistan to England to get treatment for the fatal gun wound to her head. Yousafzai currently lives in Britain but in a recent BBC interview, expressed her wish to go back to her home land. She was invited to write a blog about life under the Taliban for the BBC in 2009.

"She is not a brave girl and has no courage. We will target her again and attack whenever we have a chance," Shahid told the publication.

While explaining why they attacked the teenager he also suggested that she was being used as a tool by the west.

"She even used a fake name of Gul Makai to write a diary. We attacked Malala because she was used to speak against Taliban and Islam and not because she was going to school," Shahid said.

"She accepted that she attacked Islam so we tried to kill her, and if we get another chance we will definitely kill her and that will make us feel proud," he was quoted as saying by Sky News.

Yousafzai is one of the top contenders for the Nobel Peace Prize, the ceremony will take place on Friday, Oct. 11.

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