Look at what one said during the protest...from the article at The Telegraph:
"Taliban have not spared Malala and they were out to destroy everything in her name, including our college." Javeria, another student, said: "Malala had fled the country and was safe from Taliban but now we would bear the brunt of militancy because the Taliban would attacks us," Students said the government had three days to reverse the renaming, or they would step up their protests.
And the whole time, the neutered government and military of Pakistan continue to allow the Taliban free reign in much of the country...turning their heads to the violence towards a bunch of their very own little girls.
Pakistan schoolgirls protest against teenager Malala Yousafzai
Pupils ripped up posters of the 15-year-old and smashed windows as they warned the new name would make them a target for Taliban militants.
Malala received international attention when she was shot by extremists angered by a diary she published of Taliban abuses, and her campaign to encourage more girls to go to school in Pakistan.
She has staged a remarkable recovery after being shot at close range as she travelled home from school in Mingora in October and is being treated in hospital in Birmingham.
Her cause has now been taken up by politicians around the world, but neighbours and other schoolgirls have said they are worried the attention will attract more militant attacks.
The schoolgirls demanded the Government Postgraduate Malala College for Girls in Mingora revert to the Saidu Postgraduate College for Girls.
Gul Ghutai, a year 12 student, told The Daily Telegraph by telephone: "We want the government to remove the name plates and pictures and portraits of Malala immediately.
"Taliban have not spared Malala and they were out to destroy everything in her name, including our college." Javeria, another student, said: "Malala had fled the country and was safe from Taliban but now we would bear the brunt of militancy because the Taliban would attacks us," Students said the government had three days to reverse the renaming, or they would step up their protests.
Spogmay, another student, said: "The militants didn't spare Malala, then how can they be expected to spare a college named after her.
"The government should refrain from politicising our education. We want to pursue our studies in peaceful environments and the new name of our college can bring it into spotlight and Taliban could hit it."
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