London: Doctors treating 15-year-old Pakistani shooting victim Malala Yousufzai said on Friday that she is able to stand with help and to write, though she still shows signs of infection. The girl is "well enough that she's agreed that she's happy, in fact keen, for us to share more clinical detail," said Dr Dave Rosser, medical director at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. "She is also keen that I thank...
05:57 PM, Oct 19, 2012
Islamabad: Most of the girls enrolled at the school run by Pakistani teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai's father have stopped attending classes due to threats against the institution in the wake of an attempt on her life by the Taliban. Parents and students were uncomfortable with the attention given to the school by the media and the threats received by the institution, members of the school's administration were quoted as...
12:56 PM, Oct 18, 2012
London: Pakistani teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai "remains stable" but would have to undergo reconstruction surgery in the coming days, the hospital and doctors attending her said. "Malala spent a second comfortable night at the hospital and continues to be cared for by Queen Elizabeth and Birmingham Children s Hospital doctors", a statement issued by the Birmingham hospital said. It added that Malala "remains stable". Medical Director of the Queen...
08:46 AM, Oct 18, 2012
London: The 14-year-old Pakistani teenager activist Malala Yousafzai undergoing treatment in a British hospital continues to make good progress, doctors attending to her said. Dr David Rosser, the medical director of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham in a statement on Tuesday night said that the team of specialists from hospitals had been "impressed with her strength and resilience." Her condition on Tuesday afternoon was described as "stable" and her...
11:41 AM, Oct 17, 2012
Islamabad: Taliban insurgents said on Tuesday that the Pakistani schoolgirl its gunmen shot in the head deserved to die because she had spoken out against the group and praised U.S. President Barack Obama. Malala Yousufzai, 14, was flown to Britain on Monday, where doctors said she has every chance of making a "good recovery". The attack on Yousufzai, who had been advocating education for girls, drew widespread condemnation. Pakistani surgeons...
10:20 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Pakistani teenage rights activist who was shot at by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Malala Yousufzai, has been sent to Britain for further treatment, according to reports. Malala was shot in the head by the Taliban last week for speaking out against them. An air ambulance had arrived at Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Islamabad to shift the 14-year-old rights activist to Britain for further treatment. ...
10:10 AM, Oct 16, 2012
Islamabad/London: Pakistani teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai, who was seriously injured in a barbaric assassination attempt by the Taliban last week, was on Monday sent to Britain on an air ambulance for specialist treatment, including the repair of damaged bones of her skull. On her arrival in the UK, 14-year-old Malala will be transferred to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham - an NHS (National Health Service) hospital which has a...
08:53 PM, Oct 15, 2012
Los Angeles: At a recent concert, pop queen Madonna dedicated a song to 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban. The Material Girl was performing at the Staples Center in Los Angeles as part of her MDNA tour when she gave an onstage shout-out to the young education-activist who was shot on her way home from school in Mingora, Pakistan, last week. "This made me cry," Madonna...
02:07 PM, Oct 15, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani teenage rights activist who was shot at by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Malala Yousufzai, has been sent to Britain for further treatment, according to reports. Malala was shot in the head by the Taliban last week for speaking out against them. An air ambulance had arrived at Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Islamabad to shift the 14-year-old rights activist to Britain for further treatment. Thousands gathered in Karachi on Sunday...
10:17 AM, Oct 15, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani teenage rights activist who was shot at by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Malala Yousufzai, will be sent to Britain for further treatment, according to reports. Malala was shot in the head by the Taliban last week for speaking out against them. An air ambulance has arrived at Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Islamabad to shift the 14-year-old rights activist to Britain for further treatment. Thousands gathered in Karachi on Sunday...
09:32 AM, Oct 15, 2012
Karachi: A girls school in Karachi named after Malala Yousufzai has been upgraded to higher secondary and its students collected Rs 50,000 to be sent to the parents of the teenage rights activist for her treatment. The Malala Yousufzai Government Girls Secondary School on Mission Road was upgraded to higher secondary on Saturday, Dawn news reported. The school was renamed after 14-year-old Malala in July when she attended the school's...
02:20 AM, Oct 15, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani security agencies have arrested three brothers of a senior Taliban commander from Swat during a raid for alleged links to the near-fatal attack on teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai, who is still on ventilator in hospital and making "slow and steady" progress. The suspects, who were arrested on Saturday in Nowshera district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, were sent to an undisclosed location for questioning, officials said. The officials told...
04:46 PM, Oct 14, 2012
Islamabad: Angered by the coverage of its attempt to assassinate teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai, the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan has drawn up plans to target Pakistani and international media organisations across the country. Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud has issued "special directions" to his subordinates in different cities of Pakistan to target media groups, BBC Urdu reported. An unnamed Interior Ministry official said intelligence agencies had intercepted a phone conversation...
04:42 AM, Oct 14, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban, was still on ventilator at a top army hospital, though her condition was satisfactory and her vital organs were "intact and working properly", the military said on Saturday. The condition of 14-year-old Malala, who is in the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi, continues to be satisfactory, a military spokesman said. She is...
03:57 AM, Oct 14, 2012
Islamabad: Teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai on Saturday continued to be on ventilator at a military hospital after being shot in the head by Taliban militants though doctors treating her said her vital signs were normal and her condition was satisfactory. Rallying behind Malala, people across Pakistan offered special prayers for her speedy recover. "Malala is still on ventilator...According to the doctors, her condition is satisfactory and her vitals (signs...
10:49 PM, Oct 13, 2012
Fourteen-year-old Pakistani activist Malala Yousufzai is still fighting for her life after being shot by the Taliban. Doctors say the next several days will be key in determining what happens next. Malala was targeted by the Taliban because she has stood up for the rights of women and girls in Pakistan's Swat Valley, an area of the country where support for Islamic fundamentalism runs high. ...
10:46 PM, Oct 13, 2012
The attack on the teenager is the latest reason the country has become paralysed with fear of the Taliban's medieval minds. Has the time finally come to stand up to the extremists? We grieved as a nation when Benazir Bhutto was murdered. We grieved again when Salmaan Taseer, the governor of Punjab, was assassinated by his own guard. We wept when Shahbaz Bhatti, the first Christian federal minister in Pakistan,...
01:13 PM, Oct 13, 2012
More than 50 clerics associated with the Sunni Ittehad Council and a former Pakistani minister have joined hands against the Taliban and issued a fatwa that declared the attempted assassination of the teenage activist as "un-Islamic". A spokesman for the Taliban's Swat Valley chapter says its leadership had decided two months ago to kill Malala and then sent out a hit squad to carry out the job. The Pakistani police ...
09:05 AM, Oct 13, 2012
Washington: The outpouring of nation-wide sentiment in Pakistan against the Taliban following its attack on teenage rights activist Malala Yousafzai is a "silver lining" from this horrible tragedy, United States has said. "Well we've seen in the past in Pakistan that when the Taliban commits truly heinous and outrageous acts like this, it galvanises popular opinion against them not only in the cities, but also in those towns and neighborhoods...
08:58 AM, Oct 13, 2012
The shooting of Malala Yousufzai on Tuesday in the volatile Swat Valley horrified Pakistanis across the spectrum. ...
11:48 PM, Oct 12, 2012
