Nargis Taraki tweets: Dear @Malala, I remember the day when we, The Afg girls stood for 10min in schools to pray for ur recovery & health. We were the only girls who could understand you & ur struggle for #education. Today those Afg girls r expelled from schools and need your support, lobby & act."

Malala Yousafzai has in fact appealed to the Talibani leadership in Afghanistan to revoke the de facto ban imposed on female education and immediately reopen girls senior secondary schools across the nation, emphasising that the new rulers in Kabul should abide by their assurances given to the world of respecting women's rights.