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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan â€" Doctors have removed a bullet lodged near the spine of Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old Pakistani girl gunned down on her school bus by the Taliban, officials said Wednesday. Yousafzai’s chances of survival improved after the surgery, but she remained unconscious and in critical condition.
As schoolchildren throughout the nation held prayer vigils for the teenage education activist, many Pakistani political leaders and international figures expressed revulsion over the assassination attempt in the volatile Swat Valley region.
But major religious parties and mosque leaders were largely silent, highlighting the grip that right-wing clerics hold on this increasingly conservative, majority-Muslim country.
“These religious parties have strong ideological links to the Taliban. Conceptually there is not much difference between them. They want to control the state and take up jihad against the West,†said Ijaz Khattak, a professor at the University of Peshawar who knows Yousafzai and her father, and a member of Swat’s peace jirga, or tribal council.
The Pakistani Taliban said it dispatched a gunman to kill Yousafzai, a ninth grader, because the militant group considered her a pro-Western symbol of “infidels and obscenity.†But mainstream Pakistanis view Yousafzai, whose advocacy of girls’ education won global recognition, as a symbol of hope in a country long beset by violence and despair.
On Wednesday morning, Pakistan’s top military official, Chief of Army Staff Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, became the country’s first national leader to visit Yousafzai, who is being treated at a military hospital in Peshawar for gunshot wounds to the head and neck.
Kayani, arguably Pakistan’s most powerful man, called the shooting “inhuman†and a “heinous act of terrorism,†the military’s information office said in a statement that quoted the Prophet Muhammad: “The one who is not kind to children, is not amongst us.â€
“Islam guarantees each individual â€" male or female â€" equal and inalienable rights to life, property and human dignity,†Kayani said. “We wish to bring home a simple message: We refuse to bow before terror. We will fight regardless of the cost. We will prevail, insha Allah†[God willing].
The army has lost thousands of soldiers and officers in its war against the Pakistani Taliban, which has stepped up its attacks in the western tribal areas and now frequently beheads captured troops.
Yousafzai was 11 when she gained notice in early 2009 for writing a diary, under a pen name, about Taliban atrocities for the BBC’s Urdu service. She lives in Mingora, the largest city in the Swat Valley, where Taliban insurgents imposed harsh Islamic law for two years before being routed by a major military operation in May 2009.
Today, the army promotes Swat as a tourist destination â€" it sponsored a festival there in July, trying to restore the region’s reputation as the Switzerland of Pakistan. Residents say militants rarely strike, but Tuesday’s daylight attack demonstrated the Taliban’s continued ability to infiltrate the area, which adjoins Pakistan’s insurgency-plagued tribal belt.
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