Pakistani Police Arrest Suspected Militant Responsible For Shooting Malala In 2012

Malala being taken to the hospital in 2012

The Pakistani Police have announced the arrest of suspected militants responsible for the shooting of teenage activist, Malala Yousafzai in the head in October 2012 because of her campaign of girl’s education.

They boarded her school bus in Pakistan’s north-western Swat valley and opened fire, in an assault that also wounded two of her school friends.

Malala has since recovered from the attack, which drew widespread condemnation from the international community and catapulted her to international fame.

She was named one of Time magazine’s most influential people in 2013, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and has just released an autobiography.

“The group involved in the attack on Malala Yousafzai has been arrested,” army spokesman Gen Asim Bajwa told a news conference on Friday.

Bajwa said 10 members of the Pakistani TTP had been arrested in a joint operation with Pakistan’s army, police and intelligence services.

The group had been working under the instructions of Mullah Fazlullah, the chief of the Pakistani Taliban, Gen Bajwa added.

Malala Yousafzai, who was 15 at the time of the attack, had already gained prominence for demanding rights to education and for girl children in Pakistan.

It will be recalled that the teenager was in Nigeria not quite long ago, and voiced out her displeasure over the kidnap of over 200 girls in a girls school in Chibok, Borno State, North-East Nigeria.