Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani advocate for girls' rights to education, condemned the bombing of a school bus in Islamabad. According to Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan, a female suicide bomber was the one responsible for the bombing.

The bus set to explode was transporting female students in Quetta and the bombing was seen as a protest against girls going to school. It killed 14 female university students. In total, the bombing killed 24 individuals and injured 34 people. The bus bombing was followed by another attack by militants on a city hospital where the injured were given medical aid.

Ms. Yousafzai called the act as "cowardly".

According to a report from the United Nations, Ms. Yousafzai said in a statement that, "The innocent girls who died on Saturday have nothing to do with politics and only wanted to empower themselves through education. Obtaining education is every man and woman's birth right and no one is allowed to take away this right from them."

In line with the atrocious bombing, a worldwide "petition calling for urgent action to ensure the right of every child to safely attend to school" was launched and supported by the United Nations Special Envoy for Education.

Ms. Yousafzai was the very first person to sign the worldwide petition.

In an op-ed article published in the Huffington Post, United Nations Special Envoy Gordon Brown wrote, "This (bus bombing) the bloodiest atrocity yet in escalating violence against female students, comes eight months after the attempted assassination of Malala and her two friends, kainat and Shaiza, targeted by terrorists just because they wanted to go to school."

Mr. Brown further explained that, "...today, in advance of Malala Day on July 12, we are launching our worldwide petition to demand that global leaders ensure 57 million out-of-school girls and boys are given the chance of education."

Ms. Yousafzai is set to appear at the United Nations headquarters on July 12 to give her first ever public speech since she was shot by terrorists last in October 2012. Youth from all over the world will support Ms. Yousafzai on this day.

The petition and the Malala Day aimed to pave the way for universal primary education by December of 2015. The said date is the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals which is comprised of anti-poverty targets set by the United Nations member States in a 2000 summit.

Both UN Special Envoy Mr. brown and Ms. Yousafzai support to speed up the progress towards the UN Global Education First Initiative aimed to "put every child in school, improve the quality of learning, and foster global citizenship by the end of 2015."

Ms. Yousafzai is an education and women's rights activist in the Swat valley where Taliban protests girls going to school to study. At the age of eleven years old, Ms. Yousafzai wrote a blog for BBC sharing her hapless condition living under the Taliban rule. New York Times had also documented her life as a Pakistani. Through these exposures, Ms. Yousafzai was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by Desmond Tutu and the Nobel peace Prize.

But her popularity gained the abhorrence of the Taliban terrorist group that Ms. Yousafzai was shot at point black range on October 9 2012. She was in a coma for the days following the attack but later recovered when she was brought to the United Kingdom for intensive rehabilitation.