Taliban vow to finish off brave Pakistani girl if she survives her gunshot wounds

Pilloried across the globe for trying to assassinate
Malala Yousufzai, the Taliban defended the attack
Tuesday by saying the 14-year-old was fair game
because she’s going through puberty.
A spokesman for the terror gang also claimed the
young activist was considered a spy — for the
diary she wrote for the BBC when she was 11
years old, detailing life under Taliban rule.
“She has received the punishment for her sin,”
mouthpiece Ahsanullah Ahsan told the Pakistani
newspaper The News International.
Malala’s reported age is 14, but Ahsan claimed
she is really 15 — in an attempt to bolster his
twisted justification for shooting her in the head.
“Even if no sign of puberty becomes noticeable,
this age of the girl marks the end of pre-puberty
phase,” he said.
“Taliban executed the attack on an adult girl only
after she emerged as a pivotal character in the
media war against us,” he added.
Malala survived the ambush on a school bus and
was listed in stable condition at a British hospital
where she was flown in secret on Monday.
The Taliban have vowed to finish her off, and go
after her family, so she is being treated under
tight security while her plight captivates people
around the world.
Two well-wishers who showed up at the Queens
Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham — claiming to
be relatives so they could see her — were hauled
off by cops.
“We don’t believe there’s any threat to her
personal security,” said Dave Rosser, medical
director. “We think it’s probably people being
overcurious.”
Police said the pair never got into the wards and
did not pose a threat to Malala.
Doctors have been guarded about discussing the
extent of Malala’s injuries, and she is under
heavy sedation.
In Pakistan, surgeons removed the bullet that
went through her head and said she was able to
move her legs and hands.
Rosser said her first night at the new hospital —
after being spirited out of her homeland on a
foreign jet — was “comfortable.”
“We are very pleased with the progress she’s
made,” he said. “She is showing every sign of
being every bit as strong as we’ve been led to
believe.”
The teen will need reconstructive surgery to
repair her skull and intensive neurological
rehabilitation — carried out by doctors who treat
Britain’s wounded soldiers.
“There’s a long way to go and she is not out of
the woods yet,” Rosser said, according to the
BBC. “But at this stage we’re optimistic that things
are going in the right direction.”
Malala’s parents are still in Pakistan, where
officials are trying to arrange for travel to Britain.
The Pakistani government has also announced a
$1 million reward for capture of Ahsan, the
Taliban official.
- NY Daily News