If Malala survives, we will target her again: Taliban
A TTP spokesperson told The Express Tribune that this was a warning for all youngsters who were involved in similar activites and added that they will be targeted if they do not stop.
Malala was injured along with two other women when Taliban gunmen opened fire on a bus in Swat.
Yousufzai, who studies at Khushal Public School, was on her way home when the vehicle came under attack on Haji Baba Road. One of the other injured has been identified as Shazia and sources say the third was a teacher.
Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said his group was behind the shooting.
"She was pro-West, she was speaking against Taliban and she was calling President Obama her idol," Ehsan said by telephone from an undisclosed location.
"She was young but she was promoting Western culture in Pashtun areas," he said, referring the main ethnic group in northwest Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan.
DPO Swat Rasool Shah said that a search operation has been initiated in the area and a number of suspects have been arrested.
Malala was shifted to Saidu Sharif Medical Complex in Mingora immediately after the incident and later she was moved to Peshawar in an Army helicopter.
Doctors at the Saidu Sharif Medical Complex said that Malala was out of danger after the bullet penetrated her skull but missed her brain.
“A bullet struck her head, but the brain is safe,” said Dr Taj Mohammed.
“She is out of danger,” he added.
Dr Laal Noor, from the same hospital, confirmed that the bullet broke her skull but missed her brain.
“The bullet struck her skull and came out on the other side and hit her shoulder,” he told AFP.
After getting done with Malala's check-up, the doctors said that she might be sent abroad for treatment.
As the news made rounds, hundreds of people flocked outside the hospital, willing to donate blood to Malala.
Two bullets hit Malala -- one in the head and another between the neck and chest.
Malala's friend, Shazia, while narrating the incident to Express News said, "When we were coming back from school, unidenfitied men approached our bus and asked us to identify Malala, when we told him, he opened fire."
The Government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has taken a notice of the incident.
Hailing from Mingora, the 14-year-old Malala struggled for restoring peace in Swat and education for girls in the region for which she was awarded the National Peace Award by former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.
When the Taliban had banned education for females in the district, she kept a diary for the British Broadcasting Corporation and wrote about the misdeeds of militants.
Yousufzai also remained a speaker for the Child Assembly in Swat, which works for child rights in the district. Later on, she was awarded the first National Peace Award by the government of Pakistan on December 19, 2011 for rendering courageous services to promote peace during the mayhem.
COMMENTS (337)
The taliban are men that are ignorant, stupid men, that are afraid that women might learn to read the holy koran and find out that the koran does not say women have to stay uneducated and ignorant like the men would like them to be so they can treat women as slaves. Yes the taliban should be afraid of women being educated. They will kick the mens butts and they will feel what women are feeling today. If it was up to me I would castrate every one of those taliban men, bury them and have all the girls stone them, to show them how it feels.
@habibullah:
Go complain to Allah, it is HE who has given so much attention to Malala. It is HE who decides who gets fame and who gets zilat.
Allah has decided Taliban deserve Zilat. They just dont know it.
undoubtely we pray for her fast recovery but about other those innocent people who are being targeted everyday.Arent those who were killed in baluchistan university bus attack in pursuit of education, justice equality??????
@john: It is Afghans that are hosting Maulana Fazlullah in Kunar province, It is India that is supporting the Afghan government. It is Afghanistan and India that are helping these criminals.
@AGSA: you must be an Indian, our Military are our heros, dont you dare post rubbish on here again about our heros.
Those days of Mullah soldiers are gone with Zia Ul Haq.
May Allahbless her with long life and prove the shooters wrong because u say that nothing can happen against the wishes of Allah
M ay Allah bless her and prove the shooters wrong
How can any one shoot a child only heartless man we thinkbefore we kill any animal but she is not animal
@Dushmann: Like they say first they came for the blacks, then they came for the jews I didnt say anything because I was neither. Then they came for me. Thats exactly whats happening in pakistan. I am so glad that India was never declared a Hindu country and chose to be secular. I am a Hindu btw
Why do Jahilan cover thier faces like women? They should start wearing Burqa. They attack behind the back, they never fight face to face like men.
@Amanzeb Khan: I am sorry but Imran Has acted disgracefully in this episode, he has refused to denounce the Jahilan because he says he fears they will attack his workers, then he get rid of cowards in his party, this way any group can threaten to kill his workers, will he stop saying the truth about anyone. Instead of showing bravery that we will not be cowered by terrorists and we will speak the truth, this guy defends the Taliban.
Ironically it is the drones that are killing those whom he is afraid of killing his workers, so the drones are basically protecting his people.
I am sorry for the people dying in drone attacks but the drones are not targetting innocents like the Taliban are, the drones are eliminating these child killers, and I support it.
What about thousands of other malalas killed in Wazirstan everyday??? Are they not humanbeings????
MALALA You are really a brave girl. Those attackers are very coward who affraid from a 14 years old girl. Very very shame on you attackers. MALALA god will help you and recover you soon. May you live long. I always pray to god for your health,safety and bright future.
Malala is neither a victim nor an innocent bystander. She is a courageous fighter for her rights, a little warrior who fights against the forces of Evil. She is an emblem for the seeker of knowledge, for equality, truth, happiness, tolerance, compassion and justice against those who are Intolerant, suppressors of Truth, deniers of Equality, cruel twisted beings whose breasts fill with hate. Malala should be the war cry of those who would be loyal to Good and destroy Evil.
Malala is daughter of pakistan i hv so mny malala like students in my free education school from such area swat wazeeristan hazara . I hv same malala mission for free education students living under poverty Hajra bibi public school Itthad town karachi
@Zubair: Well said, I couldnt have said it better
Grown men with guns are scared of a little child.
they are the definition of COWARDS
No body know that who shot Malala nd her frnds but We r still praying for her nd her frnds health.v all r peace lover not war lover I think Pak army have to collect all the weapons from people nd they have to protect the lives of people.
Where is OIC ? What is human right?
These Taliban spend more time killing fellow Muslims than killing the so-called infidels.
I hope she can get back to what she's doing soon. The sooner she gets back, the sooner the Taliban gets crushed.
Now many Malalas will go forward with more strength
Back to the stone age.
SHAME ON RELIGIOUS PARTIES, speak clearly against these JAHILAN, Dont make excuses, dont say mixed things, say clearly this is an evil act and these criminals should be destroyed.
Shame on Saudis and the Saudi religious authorities for their SILENCE.
Thank you USA for speaking against these ZALIMAN, thank you UN and thank you thank you everyone who spoke up.
Shame on cowards, hyenas and sheep like Muslims who are silent.
I call on the Pakistan Army to attack these criminals with their FULL FORCE.
These criminals are being supported by Afghans in Kunar, Please get ready to expel all Afghanis because their backward mindset is spreading in our streets.
so 14 year old girls make the taliban tremble...
Talibanies are cowards first they are scared of a fourteen year old and now they hide behind their religion to hide their panic...run run and run but you can't run from your fears..
The brutal murders and violence by the Taliban show no signs of abating. Suddenly, they throw a bomb here or a grenade there in crowded places, killing and maiming people, or they resort to firearms to shoot as they like. But what is not disclosed to our Pakistani people is that these Taliban have not appeared suddenly from some unknown source; in fact they have been in the making for decades in the political anarchy that has prevailed in Pakistan. The major players in this game have been Pakistani politicians and religious leaders (or ringleaders ) of religious parties like the Jamaat-e-Islami, for instance, who have misused the name of Islam for their political ends and have misled the vast majority of Pakistani people that a pure Islam was being re-introduced.
Thus the field was open for such ‘mujahiddin of Islam’ and the custodians of mosques to brainwash common people into believing that the dawn of Islamic rejuvenation was just around the corner. The Islamisation programme by the sadistic dictator General Zia-ul-Haq was a natural growth of that process that had started long ago. That process had matured and has been showing its results in the shape of sectarian versions of Islam, violence against religious minorities (Ahmadis, Christians, Shias, Hindus, etc.), where the ‘pure’ Muslims, the mujahiddin and the Taliban, are doing Allah’s work and fiery clerics spouting their venom against fellow human beings.
Can these forces be stopped by an official decree or praying for peace? The answer is No. Much has gone wrong in Pakistan in the name of Islam. It will take much more than pious wishes and prayers to remove the evil forces that are terrorising the people of Pakistan.
Now beasts are afraid of 14 year old child
Condemnation by the politicians is one thing, where are the mass rallies and protests through out the Muslim world by the people, Mullahs and Imams condemning these atrocities on 14 year old children by unrepentant savages all in the name of religion? The only way the TTP will change their tune is if the people stand with their leaders, support them through demonstrations and recognize the TTP misogynist ways are no longer relevant in the 21st Century- even in Pakistan.
Get well soon my brave child....you are here to create history! It is indeed amazing that you have been doing excellent jobs though you are too young. I salute you for your unputdownable bravery and interest in education. Someday your nation will be able to bring back sunny days -" Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habi.(By Rabindranath Tagore). Lotsa love and blessings from India. Thanks to other Pakistani open minded persons also....keep the flag of optimism and humanity high.
find the real threat behind it .i dont think its the real TALIBAAN TALKING/DOING IT HERE
@rick: Its the other way around, pakistan supported taliban and destroyed a stable Afghanistan first.
More Pakistani people need to show the same courage, more importantly Pakistani Govt and army need to take charge and get rid of these Taliban until then there is no salvation for the pakistani people. Pakistan also needs to look at blasphamy crimes and stop killing each other just because people have differnet beliefs. There is no room for hatered or else it will tear the country apart as it is doing right now. In my opinion there is more of the same to come because I dont see an uprise or the desire to make a change.. I would also like to see the end of Mullahs they are the worst of creatures on the earth and I am sorry to say that pakistani people have not figured that out yet..Pakistani people please wake up, I pray for the country daily that may Allah save this country and its people from the evil people. But that will happen if people will wake up and do something also. May Allah be with you all and keep you safe from harm..