Malala Yousafzai’s attackers have been arrested, the Pakistani army claims.
On Friday, the Pakistan army declared that they had arrested 10 members of the Taliban involved in the attack on girls' education activist Malala Yousafzai.
General Asim Bashwa, the spokesperson for the Pakistan Army said that the entire gang involved in the murder attempt of the teenage girl has been busted, The Guardian reported.
Yousafzai, a Pakistani student, was fighting for education and women's rights when she was attacked by the Taliban in 2012. She was shot in the head and the neck by the members of the group that were arrested. She was 15-years-old at the time of the incident. After the attack she received the emergency medical care at a Pakistani military facility and then she was transferred to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham to undergo surgery and more extensive treatment. She was seriously injured, but she managed to fully recover after rehabilitation. The teenager started writing a blog for the BBC in 2009. In the Swat valley, the Taliban had banned girls from attending school. In her blog she talked about her life and its challenges under the Taliban regime. In one of her blog posts she discussed how she couldn't wear colorful clothes to school because the Taliban wouldn't approve of it. Yousafzai wrote blog posts for 10 weeks until she had to move away from the Swat valley due to a Pakistani military campaign. After her association with the BBC, she started appearing on Pakistani channels and had been an increasingly public figure since then. The attack that almost took her life also gave her global recognition. Today, she is an international symbol of girls' education and women's rights. Her dedication to education and her courage in the face of violence have inspired many people around the world. She has become the face of women's and girls' rights campaigns.
She has even established a charity, The Malala Fund, with her father and Pakistani activist Shiza Shadid. The fund offers educational opportunities for women and girls in developing countries. The fund has operations in Pakistan, Nigeria, Jordan and Kenya.
