Heartening news from England: The 15-year-old female-education activist shot by the Pakistani Taliban last October has been discharged from the hospital.
But Malala Yousafzai won’t be returning to her homeland — where she’d vowed to remain, despite being marked for death.
Instead, she and her family will take up residence in Britain, where her father has been named a Pakistani education attaché.
The school-bus shooting of this courageous teen crusader horrified the world.
Especially after the Taliban not only acknowledged guilt in the attack but actually boasted about it — and warned that they wouldn’t stop until she was dead.
That Malala even survived gunshot wounds to her head and neck is a miracle. That she was able to walk out of the hospital so soon is all the more amazing.
But she’s not totally out of the woods yet: Malala will undergo outpatient cranial-reconstructive surgery this month.
She became an international celebrity four years ago at age 11 when she began writing an anonymous blog about life under the Taliban — and especially its ban on educating girls.
Her family was forced to flee their village when she was publicly identified, but she insisted on attending school every day, saying she longed for “a country where education would prevail.”
After the shooting, the Taliban — which has been trying to recast its public image — warned that Malala “has become a symbol of Western culture.”
“Let this be a lesson,” a spokesman savagely warned.
Actually, she’s become a symbol of something else — most notably fearlessness in the face of barbaric zealotry.
That she’s no longer free to lead that charge in Pakistan is unfortunate.
But the Taliban will find that theirs is a Pyrrhic victory at best — because Malala Yousafzai will continue to inspire.