Rs 10 million reward for arrest of Malala's attackers
October 10, 2012
Speaking to the media, Hussain said the 14 year olds condition had improved after doctors successfully removed a bullet lodged in her shoulder on Wednesday morning. He added that the decision to send her abroad for treatment had been postponed.
Malala was shot outside her school in Swat on Tuesday and was later flown to the Combined Military Hospital where her condition was described as critical. Malala won international recognition for highlighting Taliban atrocities in Swat with a three years ago, when militants led by radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah burned girls' schools and terrorised the valley.
Her struggle resonated with tens of thousands of girls who were being denied an education by militants across northwest Pakistan, where the government has been fighting local Taliban since 2007.
She received the first-ever national peace award from the Pakistani government last year, and was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by advocacy group Kids Rights Foundation in 2011.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed the attack in a series of telephone calls to reporters and then issued a strongly-worded statement justifying the attack on a child on the grounds that Malala had preached secularism "and so-called enlightened moderation".
