‘Malala not yet out of danger’

Teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban, is ‘not yet out of danger’ and is being moved from Peshawar to a top Rawalpindi hospital, authorities said on Thursday, as special prayers were offered across Pakistan for her speedy recovery.

Malala, 14, is currently in the intensive care unit of a military hospital in Peshawar after doctors on Wednesday removed a bullet lodged near her spine during a three-hour surgery. Doctors have said she is improving though her condition continues to be serious.  

Malala is being shifted to the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology [AFIC] in Rawalpindi from the Combined Military Hospital in Peshawar.

‘Her condition is not yet out of danger despite improvement. She is being shifted to Rawalpindi,’ Masood Kausar, Governor of the northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, told reporters. People from all walks of life held demonstrations and candlelight vigils in Lahore and other cities of Punjab province to condemn the Taliban's cowardly act of attacking Malala.   


TEEN TARGET

• Malala Yousufzai, 14, was shot in the head by Talibans
• Doctors on Wednesday removed a bullet lodged near her spine during a three-hour surgery
• People from all walks of life held demonstrations and candlelight vigils in Lahore and other cities of Punjab province to condemn the Taliban’s cowardly act of attacking Malala