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Summary Three more arrested in connection to the attack on Malala.
Three suspects believed to be involved in the attack on Malala Yousafzai have been arrested on Saturday morning, Dunya News reported.The suspects, reportedly brothers, were arrested during raid in Akbar Pura area of Nowshera, whowere identified as Qari Ubaidullah, Abdul Hadi and Inamullah, police said.Earlier, Police had arrested a number of suspects during raids in different parts.The shooting of Malala Yousufzai along with two classmates while they were on their way home from school Tuesday horrified people in Pakistan and internationally. It has been followed by an outpouring of support for a girl who earned the enmity of the Taliban for publicizing their acts and speaking about the importance of education for girls.The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the shooting, saying that the girl was promoting Western thinking. Late on Thursday, a spokesman for one of the groups branches in the countrys north said the top leadership of the Talibans Swat Valley chapter decided two months ago to kill Yousufzai in a carefully planned attack after her family ignored repeated warnings.Police have been questioning people in the town of Mingora, in the Swat Valley, where the shooting took place.Mingora police chief Afzal Khan Afridi said arrests had been made, but he declined to give any details about the number of people detained or what role theyre suspected of having in the shooting. He said he did not want to endanger the ongoing investigation.Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters Friday that the two gunmen who staged the attack were not among those arrested, but he said investigators had identified the masterminds of the shooting and efforts were under way to capture all those involved.The Taliban spokesman, Sirajuddin Ahmad, said Yousufzais family had been warned three times the most recent warning coming last week before the decision was made to kill her.Ahmad said local Taliban leader Maulana Fazlullah and his deputies selected three attackers, including two trained sharpshooters, who carefully studied the girls route home from school.Malala wrote against Taliban atrocities in a journal for the BBC under a pseudonym when she was just 11.After the Taliban were pushed out of the valley in 2009 by the Pakistani military, she became even more outspoken in advocating for girls education. She appeared frequently in the media and was given one of the countrys highest honors for civilians for her bravery.Pakistanis across the country held services to pray for Yousufzais recovery Friday. Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf visited the hospital in Rawalpindi where shes being treated to pay his respects and check on her condition.As the school Yousufzai attended reopened, children and teachers tried to come to terms with what happened to their star pupil, shot in a bus roughly 300 meters (yards) from her classrooms. Police were deployed around the school, but many students still stayed away.We have decided to open the school after two days to overcome the fear among our students that gripped them due to the attack, said one of the teachers, Zafar Ali Khan.The school is owned and operated by the teenage activists father, who takes great pride in his daughters accomplishments and is a champion of education for girls.The girl was initially airlifted from Mingora to a military hospital in the frontier city of Peshawar, where doctors removed a bullet from her neck. On Thursday, she was transferred to a hospital in Rawalpindi, where the Pakistani army is headquartered near the capital, Islamabad.Maj. Gen. Asim Saleem Bajwa said she is being kept on a ventilator and is in stable condition. Bajwa said the bullet entered her head and went into her neck toward her spine, but it was too soon to say whether she had any significant head injury.
