DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has sent an aircraft to fly out a Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban for further medical treatment, a top official said on Sunday.
“There is an Emirati plane ready to evacuate” 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai, the official told Agence France-Presse on condition of anonymity, adding that she would be flown out once “final preparations are complete.”
Pakistan’s ambassador to the UAE, Jamil Ahmed Khan, told a private Pakistani television network that the young child rights activist would be flown to Dubai for further treatment.
Malala was shot in the former Taliban stronghold of Swat on Tuesday in retaliation for her campaign for the right to education. She was airlifted to Pakistan’s top military hospital on Thursday for specialist treatment.
On Sunday, the military said that the teenager was making “slow and steady progress” in her recovery.
The Pakistani Taliban said on Tuesday that it carried out the shooting.
Spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told Agence France-Presse that the group had repeatedly warned her to stop speaking out against it.
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