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Malala still critical, airlifted to Rawalpindi
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Blasts in Pak: 16 killed
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Malala still critical, airlifted to Rawalpindi
Islamabad, October 11 Malala, who was in the intensive care unit of a Peshawar hospital where a 3-hour surgery was performed on her yesterday to remove a bullet lodged near her spine, was shifted to the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology (AFIC) in the garrison city near here on doctors' advice. Chief military spokesman Maj Gen Asim Bajwa said doctors recommended that the AFIC had better facilities for post-surgery care. The decision to shift 14-year-old Malala, who along with two of her school friends was attacked by the Taliban on Tuesday in Swat in the country's troubled northwest, to Rawalpindi was made by a panel of Pakistani and British doctors. Doctors have said she is improving, though her condition continues to be serious. "Her condition is not yet out of danger despite improvement," Masood Kausar, governor of the northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, told reporters. A neurosurgeon from the Peshawar hospital also said the next 10-15 days are critical for Malala. The provincial Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has offered a reward of Rs 1 crore for information leading to the arrest of Malala's attackers. People from all walks of life held demonstrations and candlelight vigils in Lahore and other cities of Punjab province to condemn the Taliban's cowardly act of attacking Malala, who came to prominence after she spoke out for the rights of girls when the Swat Valley was controlled by the Taliban in 2008. Members of civil society organisations and associations of students, teachers, lawyers, clerics and doctors offered prayers in different ceremonies for the recovery of Malala. Several Islamic clerics urged people to observe Friday as "Youm-e-Dua" (day of prayers). The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility for the attack, saying Malala was targeted for her "pro-West" views and for backing a secular government in Swat, where the army conducted a major offensive in 2009 to flush out militants. A number of peaceful protests and candlelight vigils were held in Lahore. PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, in a message from Strasbourg in France where he was attending the World Forum for Democracy, described Malala as his sister and prayed for her recovery. — PTI Attack disgusting, tragic: Obama US President Barack Obama termed the assault on the young rights activist as disgusting and tragic.Obama also offered all possible help, including US military air ambulance and treatment. "I know that the President found the news reprehensible and disgusting and tragic. We strongly condemn the shooting of Malala Yousufzai," Jay Carney, the White House Press Secretary, told reporters. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has also expressed "outrage" at the life-threatening attack on the girl and is writing to her family to offer his support.
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Turkey endangered lives by grounding plane: Russia Istanbul, October 11 Damascus said intercepting the Syrian Air plane was an act of piracy, further heightening tensions between the neighbours after Turkey's chief of staff warned Ankara would use greater force if shells from Syria continued to hit Turkish territory. The grounding of the plane was another sign of Ankara's growing assertiveness over the crisis in Syria following almost a week of retaliation by its armed forces to gunfire and shelling spilling across the border. "Turkey has crossed a new threshold," said former Turkish diplomat Sinan Ulgen, chairman of the Centre for Economic and Foreign Policy Studies think-tank. "With the action they took last week, the government is in the slightly more comfortable position of having shown it has the strength to retaliate," said Ulgen. Military jets escorted the Damascus-bound Airbus A-320, which was carrying around 30 passengers from Moscow, into Ankara airport late on Wednesday after Turkey received intelligence that it was carrying "non-civilian cargo". Russia, which has stood behind the Assad government during an 18-month-old uprising that has killed some 30,000 people, angrily demanded an explanation. "The lives and safety of the passengers were placed under threat", the Russian Foreign Ministry said, adding that 17 of its nationals onboard were refused access to Russian diplomatic staff. Russian President Vladimir Putin had been expected to visit Turkey at the start of next week, but Turkish officials said hours before the plane was grounded that Russia had requested the visit be postponed, citing his heavy work schedule.— Reuters Forced Landing Turkey forced a Syrian passenger plane to land and seized what it suspected was military equipment being ferried from Russia to Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad Military jets escorted the Damascus-bound Airbus A-320, which was carrying around 30 passengers from Moscow, into Ankara airport late on Wednesday after Turkey received intelligence that it was carrying "non-civilian cargo" Russia, which has stood behind the Assad government during an 18-month-old uprising that has killed some 30,000 people, angrily demanded an explanation
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Blasts in Pak: 16 killed
At least nine persons were killed and 20 injured in a powerful bomb blast on Thursday in the main bazaar of Sibi town in the troubled Balochistan province which is experiencing low-insurgency by nationalists. The police said the bomb was installed in a motorcycle which exploded destroying many shops and vehicles, besides human casualties. In the tribal belt of Lower Orakzai bordering Afghanistan, a bomb strapped to donkey killed at least four persons and wounded more than 10 others in Lower Orakzai on Thursday, officials said. The attack took place in Mishti Mela village in Orakzai, one of the seven districts in the semi-autonomous tribal belt. “A remote-controlled bomb strapped to a donkey blew up as the animal entered a small bazaar of the village, killing at least four persons and injuring more than 10 others,” senior local administration official Fazal Qadir said. In a related incident of sabotage, three security force personnel were killed in the Dera Bugti area of Balochistan when a mine blast destroyed their vehicle. The Army has carried out a series of offensives in Orakzai, where Taliban and Al-Qaida-linked militants have carved out strongholds to plot attacks on Pakistani, Afghan and Western targets.
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Taliban, was today airlifted to Pakistan's top army hospital in Rawalpindi for better post-surgery care as special prayers were offered across the nation for her quick recovery.
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