雙語暢銷書《我是馬拉拉》第16章:悲傷之谷(12)
We were often joined by my father's friend Zahid Khan, a fellow member of the Swat Qaumi Jirga.
He was also the president of the All Swat Hotels Association, so he was particularly eager for life to go back to normal so that tourists could return.
同時也是斯瓦特旅館協會的主席，所以他特別急於讓生活回到正軌，這樣旅客們纔會回來。Like my father he was very outspoken and had been threatened too.
和我的父親一樣，他也很直言不諱，因此也遭受過不少威脅。
One night in November 2009 he had had a very narrow escape.
2009年11月的一個晚上，他與死神擦肩而過。Zahid Khan was returning to his home from a meeting with army officials at Circuit House late at night when he was ambushed.
受到突襲時，他剛結束一個在環形屋與軍方將領們召開的會議，在回家的路上。Fortunately, many of his family live in the same area and they exchanged fire with the attackers, forcing them to flee.
幸運的是，他的家族裏有很多人住在該區域。他們與襲擊者發生了交火，迫使對方撤離。Then on 1 December 2009 there was a suicide attack on a well-known local ANP politician and member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly, Dr Shamsher Ali Khan.
緊接着，2009年12月1日，發生了一起針對當地相當知名的人民民主黨政治家，同時也是開伯爾-普什圖省代表大會的成員沙姆謝爾·阿里·汗醫生的自殺式攻擊事件。He had been greeting friends and constituents for Eid at his hujra, just a mile from Imam Deri where Fazlullah's headquarters had been, when the bomb went off. Dr Shamsher had been an outspoken critic of the Taliban.
沙姆謝爾醫生經常直言批判塔利班，當時，他正在自己的會堂接待朋友以及選民們（那裏距法茲魯拉在伊滿德里的總部舊址只有不到2公里），炸彈突然爆炸了。He died on the spot and nine other people were injured.
他當場死亡，其他9人受傷。People said the bomber was about eighteen years old.
人們說襲擊者的年紀大約在18歲左右。The police found his legs and other parts of his body.
警方找到了他的腿和身體的其他部位。A couple of weeks after that our school was asked to take part in the District Child Assembly Swat, which had been set up by the charity UNICEF and by the Khpal Kor (My Home) Foundation for orphans.
幾星期後，我們學校受邀加入“斯瓦特地區兒童代表大會”，該組織由聯合國兒童基金會與克帕寇爾孤兒基金會聯手創辦。Sixty students from all over Swat had been chosen as members.
60名來自斯瓦特各地的學生被選爲代表，They were mostly boys although eleven girls from my school went along.
多數是男孩，不過，我們學校有11名女生參加。
