"A daughter is born"
When I was born, the people of our village showed solidarity with my mother and nobody congratulated my father. I arrived at dawn when the last star blinked. We Pashtuns see this as an auspicious sign. My father had no money for the hospital or a midwife, so a neighbor helped with my birth. My parents' first child was stillborn, but I kicked and screamed. I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hiding behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children. For most Pashtuns, it is a dark day when a daughter is born. My father's cousin, Jehan Sher Khan Yousafzai, was one of the few who came to celebrate my birth and even gave a nice gift of money. However, he brought with him a vast family tree of our clan, Dalokhel Yousafzai, returning immediately to my great-great-grandfather and showing only the male lineage. My father, Ziauddin, is different from most Pashtun men. He took the tree, drew a line like a lollipop of his name and at the end he wrote "Malala". Her cousin laughed, perplexed. My father didn't care. He says he looked me in the eye after I was born and fell in love. He said to people, "I know there is something different about this child". He even asked friends to throw dried fruits, candies and coins in my crib, something we usually only do for boys. I was named Malalai de Maiwand, Afghanistan's greatest heroine. Pashtuns are a proud people of many tribes divided between Pakistan and Afghanistan. We live as we have for centuries by a code called Pashtunwali, which requires us to give hospitality to all guests and where the most important value is nang, or honor. The worst thing that can happen to a Pashtun is loss of face. Shame is a very terrible thing for a Pashtun man. We have a saying: "Without honor, the world doesn't count for anything". We fight and rival each other so much that our word for cousin - tarbur - is the same as our word for enemy. But we always meet against outsiders who try to conquer our lands. All Pashtun children grow up with the story of how Malalai inspired the Afghan army to defeat the British in 1880, in one of the greatest battles of the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
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"The worst thing that can happen to a Pashtun is loss of face."
"For most Pashtuns, it is a dark day when a daughter is born."
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