Og Pakistan, hvor angrebet fandt sted, er i oprør – den 14-årige pige førte kampagne for pigers ret til skolegang i et tilbagestående stammeområde, hvorfra taliban nok er smidt ud, men stadig kan udøve terror.
Pakistani officials have offered a 10 million rupee (ca. 600.000 DKR) reward for information leading to the arrest of the attackers of a prominent teenage rights campaigner, BBC online reports Wednesday.
Malala Yousafzai, 14, is recovering from surgery after being shot in the head on Tuesday in north-western Swat Valley. The Taliban said they had shot her because she had “promoted secularism”, and that they would target her again.
Protests against the shooting have been held in several Pakistani cities. Malala Yousafzai is still unconscious in hospital in Peshawar, where she has been visited by army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Interior Minister Rehman Malik.
Mr Malik said the “whole gang” who carried out the attack had been identified and said the nation “will not let them run away, we will catch and punish them”. Gen Kayani said it was time to “stand up to fight the propagators of such barbaric mindset and their sympathisers”.
Even if Malala Yousafzai survives, life is not going to be the same for her and her family. No place in Pakistan is safe for people targeted by militant groups. She may have to live under state security or in asylum abroad.
In either case, her life and her ability to campaign for girls’ education in north-western Pakistan will be severely limited.
Malala Yousafzai was just 11 when she started writing a diary for BBC Urdu about life under the Taliban militants who had taken control of the Swat Valley in 2007 and ordered girls’ schools to close.
Writing under the pen-name Gul Makai, she exposed the suffering caused by the militants and particularly focused on her attempts to continue her education.
The Taliban were ousted from Swat in 2009, but her family said they had regularly received death threats.
