Malala Yousafzai was being sent to the top military hospital in Rawalpindi, a government official confirmed on Thursday. “Her condition is not yet out of danger despite improvement. She is being shifted to Rawalpindi,” Governor Kyber-Pakhtunkhwa Masood Kausar told reporters.
According to the DG ISPR Asim Bajwa, Malala will be accompanied by her doctors during the transfer. The decision to shift Malala to Rawalpindi was made by a panel of Pakistani and British doctors. Asked whether she was being sent to the top military hospital in the city, a military official confirmed to AFP only that she was being moved and that a further announcement would be made shortly.
Neurosurgeon Colonel Junaid told reporters that the next 10-15 days are critical for Malala. There are mounting questions about how the attack could have happened and how the perpetrators simply walked away in an area with a visible police and army presence.
“The cowards who attacked Malala and her fellow students have shown time and again how little regard they have for human life and how low they can fall in their cruel ambition to impose their twisted ideology,” Gen Kayani said yesterday in a statement.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik and KP information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain told reporters on Thursday that Malala would not be sent abroad for treatment as her condition was improving. Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan had said his group was behind the shooting.
The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa announced a 10 million rupee reward for information leading to the arrest of Malala’s attackers and Interior Minister Rehman Malik has promised to catch the gunmen. Prayers were offered across the country for Yousafzai’s recovery and students at a demonstration in support of her said that Yousafzai “is like our sister”.
Malala won international prominence after highlighting Taliban atrocities in Swat with a blog for the BBC three years ago, when the militants burned girls schools and terrorised the valley before the army intervened.
Ehsanullah Ehsan, spokesman for the Pakistani wing of the Taliban, assumed responsibility for the Taliban shooting in the head of Malala. He said that the teenager’s work had been an “obscenity” that needed to be stopped: “This was a new chapter of obscenity, and we have to finish this chapter.
According to the DG ISPR Asim Bajwa, Malala will be accompanied by her doctors during the transfer. The decision to shift Malala to Rawalpindi was made by a panel of Pakistani and British doctors. Asked whether she was being sent to the top military hospital in the city, a military official confirmed to AFP only that she was being moved and that a further announcement would be made shortly.
Neurosurgeon Colonel Junaid told reporters that the next 10-15 days are critical for Malala. There are mounting questions about how the attack could have happened and how the perpetrators simply walked away in an area with a visible police and army presence.
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| Malala Yousafzai was being sent to the top military hospital in Rawalpindi, a government official confirmed on Thursday |
Interior Minister Rehman Malik and KP information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain told reporters on Thursday that Malala would not be sent abroad for treatment as her condition was improving. Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan had said his group was behind the shooting.
The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa announced a 10 million rupee reward for information leading to the arrest of Malala’s attackers and Interior Minister Rehman Malik has promised to catch the gunmen. Prayers were offered across the country for Yousafzai’s recovery and students at a demonstration in support of her said that Yousafzai “is like our sister”.
Malala won international prominence after highlighting Taliban atrocities in Swat with a blog for the BBC three years ago, when the militants burned girls schools and terrorised the valley before the army intervened.
Ehsanullah Ehsan, spokesman for the Pakistani wing of the Taliban, assumed responsibility for the Taliban shooting in the head of Malala. He said that the teenager’s work had been an “obscenity” that needed to be stopped: “This was a new chapter of obscenity, and we have to finish this chapter.
