Maria Toorpakai

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Author of  “A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight.”

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Maria Toorpakai grew up in a lawless tribal area of Pakistan where the Taliban rules and her future was pretty much set – she’d stay at home and get married.

'The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight'

Maria Toorpakai grew up in a lawless tribal area of Pakistan where the Taliban rules and her future was pretty much set – she’d stay at home and get married.

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