Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Malala condition stable, bullet removed from head


In Pakistan, hospital officials said that they have successfully removed bullet from the head of 14 years old girl Malala Yusufzai and now her condition is stable.

On Tuesday when Malala Yusufzai, who runs girls education campaign, was returning home from the school along with other girls was shot. The attack also injured two other girls.

Pakistan's Taliban has taken responsibility of this attack.

Initially doctors treating Malala said she is out of danger but later she was taken by helicopter to Peshawar.

Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ehsanaullah Ehsan told BBC Urdu that Malala was attacked on because she was secular and against the Taliban, and she will not be spared.


Pervez Ashraf, prime minister condemning the attack said "We will fight with the mentality that is responsible for the attack. We must condemn it. Malala is like my daughter, she's your daughter too. If such is the mindset, whose daughter will be safe "

Pakistan's major political parties, TV personalities and human rights groups have also condemned by most.

The attack has been widely condemned and has sparked debate on social media. Thousands of people around the world via social media sending messages in support of Malala.


The United States State Department has said it is barbaric and kayratapurn action.

Malala was first in the headlines in 2009 when she was 11 years old, when she started writing Urdu diary on lives in the shadows of the Taliban for BBC. For that in the year 2011 she was nominated for the children international peace prize.