BAKU:
President Asif Ali Zardari said Tuesday that the shooting of
14-year-old Malala Yousafzai by the Taliban was an attack on all girls
in the country and on civilisation itself.
"The Taliban attack
on the 14-year-old girl, who from the age of 11 was involved in the
struggle for education for girls, is an attack on all girls in Pakistan,
an attack on education, and on all civilised people," Zardari said at
an economic summit in the Azerbaijani capital Baku.
Malala was
attacked on her school bus in the former Taliban stronghold of the Swat
valley a week ago as a punishment for campaigning for the right to an
education and free expression.
In some of his most poignant
remarks on the incident to date, President Zardari vowed not to let her
shooting stop the nation's drive to educate girls. "The work that she
led was higher before God than what terrorists do in the name of
religion. We will continue her shining cause," he said.
The
shooting has been denounced worldwide and by Pakistan, which has said it
will do everything possible to ensure Malala recovers and will meet all
the costs of her treatment. She was flown to Britain for treatment on
Monday where doctors said she had "a chance of making a good recovery".
The
murder attempt has sickened Pakistan, where Malala came to prominence
with a blog for the BBC highlighting atrocities under the hardline
Islamist Taliban, who terrorised the Swat valley from 2007 until an army
offensive in 2009.
President Zardari urged for a collective
efforts for wiping out terrorists, as terrorism was no more confined to
Afghanistan and Pakistan.
He said that the regional countries
like European Union must put up their united efforts for fighting
terrorism and paving way for peace, progress and economic development.
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