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| Malala being taken to the hospital in 2012 |
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.
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