A young Pakistani girl famous for her championing of education for girls was shot in the head in front of her classmates on her way home from school today.Malala Yousafzai was sitting a bus ready to leave the grounds of her school in Mingora in Pakistan’s Swat Valley when a bearded man entered the bus and shot her and another girl.The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have taken responsibility of for the assassination attempt and told a Pakistani newspaper that they will target her again if she survives. The teenager is widely known and respected for her work to promote the schooling of girls and denouncing the atrocities committed by the Taliban.Miss Yousafzai is in critical but stable condition and her wounds to her head and neck are not life threatening, Tariq Mohammad, a doctor at the main hospital in Mingora confirmed. The other girl is also stable.It was Tuesday afternoon when a man approached the school bus and asked which one of the girls was Malala, Rasool Shah, Mingora police chief said.