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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan â€" The Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban last week for advocating girls’ education has been flown to Britain for emergency specialist care, the Pakistani military said on Monday.
Malala Yousafzai, 14, left an air base in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where she was being treated for head wounds in a military hospital, on an air ambulance sent from the United Arab Emirates.
In a statement, the military said she would receive immediate treatment for her skull, which was fractured after a bullet passed through her head, as well as “long-term rehabilitation including intensive neuro rehabilitation.â€
The British Foreign Office declined to name the hospital where Ms. Yousafzai would be treated, citing patient confidentiality, but the foreign secretary, William Hague, described it as a specialist facility operated by the state-funded National Health Service. Pakistan said it would pay for her treatment.
A Pakistani military intensive care specialist accompanied her on the flight, which by midmorning Monday had stopped in the United Arab Emirates for refueling en route to Britain.
The mercy flight produced a sigh of relief of sorts among Pakistanis who have kept an anxious national vigil for Ms. Yousafzai since she was shot by a militant gunman as she returned from school in Mingora, the main town in the northwestern Swat Valley, last Tuesday.
The daughter of a schoolmaster, Ms. Yousafzai had become known for her eloquent and impassioned advocacy of education and children’s rights in the face of Taliban threats, which made her a potent symbol of resistance to the militant’s extremist ideology.
Worries over her fate have dominated Pakistan in the past week. Front-page headlines have carried updates of her medical treatment, school children held prayer services and candlelit vigils, and the political system has united to condemn to the Taliban with an unusual vehemence and unity.
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of the port of Karachi on Sunday for a solidarity march organized by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, the city’s dominant political party.
Ms. Yousafzai’s fate has also excited much international concern. President Obama, the Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu and the pop singer Madonna were among the public figures to take up her cause.
Several governments, including the United States, had offered to provide emergency treatment for Ms. Yousafzai or to fly her abroad. A senior American official said there had been four “serious†offers of help from the United States, including one from a doctor who had treated Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona congresswoman who was shot and seriously wounded in the head in January 2011.
But in the end Ms. Yousafzai, went to Britain, which has close diplomatic ties with Pakistan. Last week British specialists flew into Rawalpindi to consult with the military doctors treating her.
While Ms. Yousafzai’s condition remains fragile, the military said that in recent days she had shown some signs of improvement. She was sent abroad on Monday while “ her condition was optimal and before any unforeseen complications had set in,†the military said.
Ms. Yousafzai sprang to public attention in 2009 at a time when the Taliban had seized control of the Swat Valley, a picturesque area near the Afghan border. Despite Taliban orders that all girls should quit school, she continued to secretly attend classes, writing about the experience in an anonymous blog for the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Ms. Yousafzai later featured prominently in reports by The New York Times and other media outlets. After the Taliban were largely driven from Swat by a military operation in mid-2009, she emerged as a prominent campaigner in her own right.
Her advocacy was encouraged by father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, an educator who is a senior community leader in Swat and has also been outspoken against Islamist militants. Local Taliban militants have threatened to kill him in recent days.
It was not immediately clear if he had accompanied Ms. Yousafzai aboard the air ambulance on Monday.
A wave of public criticism over the shooting has stung the Pakistan Taliban, which over the weekend issued threats against the local and western media. Some western media organizations based in Islamabad have temporarily closed their offices as a precautionary measure.
The Pakistani government has publicly named the militant believed to have carried out the shooting as Ataullah, and offered over $ 100,000 for his capture. The Police in Swat rounded up more than 100 people since the shooting but formally arrested just four. The putative assassin remains at large.
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