10 get life term in Malala attack case

MINGORA: An anti-terrorism court on Thursday awarded life imprisonment to 10 militants for attempting to kill the teenager activist and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai in 2012.
The militants affiliated with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) shot and critically injured Malala on October 9, 2012 when she was on her way home from school in the Mingora city.Two of her friends, Shazia and Kainat, were also wounded in the attack. She had been targeted apparently for her outspoken views on girls’ education.
The ATC judge, Muhammad Amin Kundi, awarded 25 years imprisonment each to Salman, Irfan, Shaukat, Hazrat Umar, Ikramullah, Adnan, Zafar Iqbal, Israrur Rehman, Zafar Ali and Izhar.
Four other militant leaders reportedly involved in planning the assassination attempt on Malala Yousafzai, including TTP head Mullah Fazlullah and his commanders Attaullah, Zakriya and Sirajuddin, who is also the spokesman for the TTP Swat chapter, have been declared proclaimed offenders.
The TTP had claimed responsibility for the attack on Malala.The convicts were arrested in September 2014 during an operation conducted jointly by the police and security forces.