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Many Pakistanis have expressed their outrage at the shooting of the young activist
Pakistan has called for Friday to be observed as a "day of prayer" for the recovery of a 14-year-old girl shot in the head by Taliban gunmen.
Malala Yousafzai was transferred to a military hospital in Rawalpindi on Thursday. Doctors say her progress over the next few days will be "critical."
The Taliban said they would target the girls' education activist again, accusing her of "promoting secularism".
But the shooting has prompted outrage and protests across Pakistan.
On Friday, school children dedicated prayers to her recovery in morning assemblies and special prayers will also be offered after weekly prayers at mosques across the country.
Schools in the Swat Valley closed on Wednesday - the day after the shooting - in protest at the attack. Protests and rallies have also been held in Islamabad, Peshawar, Lahore, Multan as well as in Malala's hometown of Mingora.
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Malala Yousafzai was being treated in an intensive care unit in Peshawar before doctors decided to move her to the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology critical care unit in Rawalpindi.
"Malala's condition is satisfactory, praise be to God, but the next 24 to 36 hours are critical," military spokesman Maj Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa told reporters at a briefing.
"Today is the sacred day of Friday and the entire nation is praying for her health. I pray to Allah that He bestows her with good health very soon," he is quoted as saying by AFP news agency.
She was attacked on Tuesday as she was returning home from school in Mingora in north-western Swat.
Two armed men, on foot, stopped a van packed with about a dozen schoolgirls in a congested area of the town. One of them got into the van and asked which of the girls was Malala Yousafzai before he fired three shots, hitting Malala in the head and injuring two others.
Malala Yousafzai spoke to the BBC in November 2011
Pakistani local officials have offered a 10m rupee ($ 105,000; £66,000) reward for information leading to the arrest of the attackers.
Prime Minister Raja Pervaz Ashraf is the latest politician expected to visit her today - he has asked other political leaders to join him during the visit.
Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, who visited Malala in hospital in Peshawar on Wednesday, said it was time to "stand up to fight the propagators of such barbaric mindset and their sympathisers".
The young campaigner first gained attention aged 11, when she started writing a diary for BBC Urdu about life under the Taliban.
Using the pen-name Gul Makai, she wrote about suffering caused by militants who had taken control of the Swat Valley in 2007 and ordered girls' schools to close.
The Taliban were ousted from Swat in 2009, but her family said they had regularly received death threats.
This attack on her has also drawn widespread international condemnation.
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