Pakistan army arrests 10 militants linked to shooting of Malala Yousafzai

Pakistan’s army says it has arrested 10 militants suspected of involvement in the 2012 attack on teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, who won world acclaim after she was shot in the head by the Taliban in the country’s northwest. Army spokesman Gen. Asim Saleem Bajwa, said Friday that the detained men attacked Yousafzai, then 15, on orders from Mullah Fazlullah, the head of Pakistani Taliban. He said the Taliban had tried to kill Malala over her advocacy for gender equality and education for women.

The group involved in the attack on Malala Yousufzai has been arrested

Major General Asim Bajwa

Malala was shot in October 2012 while returning from school. She was initially treated in Pakistan but was later flown to a hospital in Britain, where she now lives with her family. Her courage has made her a global figure – she won the EU’s prestigious Sakharov human rights prize last year and was nominated for the Nobel peace prize. An address she gave to the United Nations general assembly in July last year, in which she vowed she would never be silenced, earned a standing ovation. Malala rose to prominence in 2009, aged 11, with a blog for the BBC Urdu service chronicling life under Taliban rule in the Swat valley where she lived.

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