Doctors on Wednesday removed a bullet from a Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban, as Pakistanis from across the political and religious spectrum united in revulsion at the attack on the 14-year-old education rights campaigner.
A Taliban gunman singled out and shot the girl,
Malala Yousafzai, on Tuesday, and a spokesman said it was in
retaliation for her work in promoting girls’ education and children’s
rights in the northwestern Swat Valley, near the Afghan border.
Ms. Yousafzai was removed from immediate danger after the operation in a
military hospital in Peshawar early Wednesday, during which surgeons
removed a bullet that had passed through her head and lodged in her
shoulder, one hospital official said.
The government kept a Boeing jet from the national carrier, Pakistan
International Airlines, on standby at the Peshawar airport to fly Ms.
Yousafzai to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for emergency treatment if
necessary, although senior officials said she was too weak to fly.
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