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View all search resultsPakistan nabs militants in Malala's attack
Pakistanâs army announced Friday that it had arrested 10militants suspected of involvement in the 2012 attack on teenage activistMalala Yousafzai, who won world acclaim after she was shot in the head by theTaliban for advocating gender equality and education for women
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akistan's army announced Friday that it had arrested 10militants suspected of involvement in the 2012 attack on teenage activistMalala Yousafzai, who won world acclaim after she was shot in the head by theTaliban for advocating gender equality and education for women.
Army spokesman Gen. Asim Saleem Bajwa said the detained men attacked Yousafzai, then 16, on orders from Mullah Fazlullah, the head of the Pakistani Taliban. The army is currently waging a major offensive against the extremist group in North Waziristan, a tribal region along the border with Afghanistan that has long been a militant stronghold.
'The entire gang involved in the murder attempt... has been busted,' Bajwa said, adding that the 'terrorists' were part of Tehrik-e-Taliban, an umbrella group encompassing militant organizations across the tribal areas.
Malala, a precocious teenage activist who had called for expanding girls' education in deeply conservative areas of Pakistan, was shot in the head in October 2012 while returning from school. Two other girls were also wounded in the attack. Malala was initially treated in Pakistan, but was later flown to a hospital in Britain, where she now lives with her family
