malala airlifted to top military hospital in rawalpindi

[niyad]

Malala airlifted to top military hospital in Rawalpindi


Activists carry photographs of Malala Yousufzai during a protest rally against her assassination attempt, Lahore, Oct 10, 2012. — Photo by AFP

PESHAWAR: A Pakistani child activist shot in the head by the Taliban is still in a critical condition and is being airlifted to the country’s top military hospital for specialist treatment, officials said Thursday.

The shooting of 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai on a school bus in the Swat valley has been denounced worldwide and by the Pakistani authorities, who have offered a reward of more than $100,000 for the capture of her attackers.

Two of her school friends were also injured in the attack, carried out as retribution for Malala’s campaign for the right to an education during a two-year Taliban insurgency in Swat that the army claimed to have crushed in 2009.

But as she spent a second day in intensive care questions are mounting about how the attack could have happened in the first place and how the perpetrators simply walked away in an area with a police and army presence.

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http://dawn.com/2012/10/11/malala-has-70-per-cent-survival-chance-doctor/

[Chorophyll]

1. K&R

[Hell Hath No Fury]

2. This is tragic -

yet, in the long run, this can be the event that galvanizes feminists activists across the region. I hope she pulls through and becomes an even stronger voice.

[niyad]

7. I hope she does, as well. the reports seem to indicate brain trauma, so let us hope it is not

permanent.

[kentuck]

3. Animals!

I wish I could put a hex on all of them.

[niyad]

6. no, as was pointed out in another thread, they are, alas, all too human. animals generall

do not do this kind of thing.

by the way, thanks for reminding me about the hex!

[kentuck]

9. Maybe we can work together?

[niyad]

10. strength in numbers

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

4. I'm a peacable man...

I know that being in Afghanistan and Pakistan and just about every other place in the middle east and western asia is just not a good policy in the long run. I'd like to see our troops come home, sooner rather than later.

But I'm also a father, with a daughter not much older than Malala. And that part of me wants to hunt down these son of bitches and kill them. Every last goddamned one of them.

[zinnisking]

12. I'm with you my fellow Wisconsinite

They are a useless plague.

By and large we should bring the troops home and send in Navy Seals teams like the way they did with Bin Laden until the freaks are wiped out. I know that's too much to ask for, but it's what I would like to see.

The neocon way of sending in the army to destroy half a country only makes things worse.

I don't have a daughter, but I'm just as heartbroken by this story.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

13. I lost it...

Watching "The Last Word" last night. I was OK until they showed the video of her father, just beaming at his daughter as she said she wanted to be a doctor. You could just feel his pride, which makes the story just that much more heartbreaking.

[leftynyc]

5. At least they're trying to protect her

I don't believe for a minute she needs special treatment - the taliban is saying they still want to kill her. Past time for the women of Pakistan to take a stand. Take to the streets and demand equal treatment.

[niyad]

8. I hope you are right about her not needing special treatment, but mainly protection.

[yends21012]

11. Hasn't the world had enough of this fundamentalist bullshit

Not only over there, but here too. We aren't at this level of extreme yet, but it seems some are heading that way.

[JDPriestly]

14. Meanwhile, in "free" America, free, public education is being dismantled.

What irony! In Pakistan, anti-education foes try to kill a student who speaks on behalf of education for all.

In American, anti-education foes kill funding for public schools and divide communities by replacing public, community schools with charter schools.

[niyad]

15. as has been discussed, not a whole lot of difference between their fanatics and the ones here.,