PESHAWAR/LAHORE:
The nation is observing Youm-e-Dua today for early recovery of Malala
Yusufzai who was seriously injured in a terrorist attack in Sawat. One
minute silence will also be observed at 12:00 noon in this regard.
Malala
Yusufzai has been shifted to Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in
Rawalpindi. She is on ventilator in the children's ITC.
DG ISPR
has said next 24 hours are important for the life of Malala. He said
surgery has been done to lessen the swelling in her brain, adding that
the best doctors of the world were treating Malala.
Meanwhile,
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain told the
media on Thursday that all mosques in the province have been requested
to hold special prayers for Malala after Friday prayers. The prayers
will be held for Malala’s “complete” recovery, he added.
“I say
complete recovery because when the brain is damaged, there are a lot of
possibilities of disabilities even if the life is safe… So I appeal for
prayers for the complete recovery of Malala and her injured friends,” he
said.
On the other hand, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has
appealed to the nation to observe Friday (today) as Youm-e-Dua for the
early recovery of young peace activist Malala Yousafzai. He said special
prayers for Malala’s early recovery would be offered in government
offices, educational institutions, PML-N offices, mosques and worships
places of minorities throughout the province.
Shahbaz said that
the nation was proud of Malalah and prayed to the Allah Almighty for her
early recovery. He further said that the nation’s image had been badly
tarnished throughout the world by the misguided elements, who attacked
Malalah.
The shooting of Malala on a school bus in the Swat valley
has been denounced worldwide and by the Pakistani authorities. The K-P
government has also offered a reward of Rs10 million for anyone who
identifies the attackers.
Two of her school friends were also
injured in the attack, carried out as retribution for Malala’s campaign
for the right to an education during a two-year Taliban insurgency in
Swat that the army claimed to have crushed in 2009.
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