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Malala wrote: "Two weeks ago, when the U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban gained control, I lay on a hospital bed in Boston and underwent a sixth operation. The doctor continued to repair the Taliban's damage to my body."

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Malala Yousafzai revealed that after the Nobel Peace Prize winner was shot and killed by a Taliban nine years ago, the skull fragments taken out by the doctor are still on her bookshelf to remind her of her survival Atrocities coming down.

The 24-year-old Pakistani activist wrote in a new blog post on Podium — released as the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan — about the way she still received shooting-related treatment at the age of 15.

She wrote: "Two weeks ago, when the U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban gained control, I lay on a hospital bed in Boston and underwent a sixth operation. The doctor continued to repair the damage the Taliban had done to me."

She described an incident nine years ago when she was shot in the head by a Taliban fighter.

"In October 2012, a member of the Pakistani Taliban boarded my school bus and fired a shot at my left temple. The bullet scratched my left eye, skull and brain-tore my facial nerve and shattered it. It broke my eardrums and interrupted my jaw joints," she wrote.

Yousafzai claimed that her life was saved due to the “quick” action taken by emergency surgeons in Peshawar, Pakistan. "But soon my organs began to fail, and I was airlifted to the capital Islamabad," she wrote. "During this period, I was in a state of induced coma. From the day of filming to the moment I woke up at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, I can't remember anything. When I opened my eyes, I found that I was still alive and I was relieved. Sigh."

In the post, she described her scars-both physically and emotionally.

"I touched my stomach; it felt hard and hard. I asked the nurse if there was a problem with my stomach," Malala recalled. "She told me that when Pakistani surgeons removed part of my skull, they relocated it in my stomach. One day, I will have another operation to put it back on my head."

However, British doctors subsequently decided to perform cranioplasty by installing a "titanium plate" on her skull to reduce the "risk of infection."

"They took my skull out of my belly. Today it is on my bookshelf," she revealed. The post includes an image of a bone that has been installed.

Yousafzai said that on August 9, when she discovered that Kunduz had become the first major city to be invaded by the Taliban, she was waking up to prepare for the latest surgery. The Islamic organization will continue to enter Kabul on August 15.

Malala was treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham after being shot by the Taliban in Pakistan in 2012

She said that in the next few days, the peace prize winner wrote to different heads of state and feminist activists around the world, trying to find a safe place for people stranded in Afghanistan. "But I know we can't save everyone," she wrote.

"Nine years later, I am still recovering from one bullet. In the past four years, the Afghan people have been hit by millions of bullets," Malala added. "I feel heartbroken for those who we will forget or never know their names, and their calls for help are not answered."

The United States has reached an agreement with the Taliban to withdraw all remaining troops from Afghanistan by August 31. It and other foreign forces are scrambling to evacuate many allied Afghans and their own citizens before the deadline, after which the United States said it would give up control of Kabul International Airport.

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Malala was treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham after being shot by the Taliban in Pakistan in 2012

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