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Malala "out of danger", not to be shifted abroad: Rehman Malik
[Dawn] Pakistain's Interior Minister Rehman MalikPak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. on Wednesday vowed to bring to justice the Taliban attackers behind the shooting of 14-year-old child activist Malala Yousafzai, DawnNews reported. "No matter where the gunnies may escape, we will bring them to justice," said Malik, speaking to news hounds at a presser in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. . "We have identified the gang which carried out the attack (on Malala Yousafzai) ... and we also know when the gunnies arrived in Swat." Pak doctors had successfully operated on Malala Yousafzai and removed the bullet lodged in her neck after being shot by the Taliban. Doctors were to decide whether to fly abroad Malala abroad for further medical treatment, however, the interior minister confirmed that, according to her doctors, the girl was "out of danger" and the decision to send her abroad had been temporarily postponed. "The girl is out of critical condition ... and she will be sent abroad if the medical board thinks there is a need for further treatment there," he said, also confirming that the central part of Malala's brain had not been affected. Malala Yousafzai was shot on her school bus with two friends in the former Taliban stronghold of Swat  ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...on Tuesday, then flown to the main northwestern city of Peshawar to be admitted to a military hospital. Malala had spent Tuesday night in intensive care, where doctors at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) described her condition as critical. Last night, a doctor at CMH told AFP that the bullet had travelled from her head and then lodged in the back shoulder, near the neck. "She is in the intensive care unit and semi-conscious, although not on the ventilator," he told AFP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media. The next three to four days would be crucial, he added. Army chief issues pious statement Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... visited the CMH on Wednesday to inquire on Malala's condition. The country's top military officer also issued a strongly-worded statement condemning the attack. "In attacking Malala, the terrorist have failed to grasp that she is not only an individual, but an icon of courage and hope, who vindicates the great sacrifices that the people of Swat and the nation gave, for wresting the valley from the scourge of terrorism," Kayani said. He vowed the military would not bow to gunnies like those who shot the young activist. "We will fight, regardless of the cost we will prevail," he said. Tuesday's shooting in broad daylight raises serious questions about security more than three years after the army claimed to have crushed a Taliban insurgency in the valley. The Pak Taliban claimed the attack in a series of telephone calls to news hounds 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". The Taliban controlled much of Swat from 2007-2009 but were supposedly driven out by an army offensive in July 2009. "It's a clear command of sharia that any female, that by any means plays a role in war against the mujahedeen, should be killed," said front man Ehsanullah Ehsan. He accused the media of pouring out "smelly propaganda" against the Taliban, saying that women had also been killed in Pakistain military operations and were tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! by the intelligence services. Posted by: Fred 2012-10-11 |
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