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Nobel laureate Malala's attackers get 25 years jail term

By Sajjad Hussain
April 30, 2015 15:27 IST
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Four Pakistani Taliban militants were on Thursday sentenced to 25 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court for their role in the 2012 attack on Malala Yousafzai, the teenage child rights activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year.

Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan terrorists had claimed responsibility of the attack on Malala in October 2012 as she was returning from her school in the Mingora town of Swat district.

Pakistan Army said in September, 2014 that it arrested ten men involved in the attack on the 17-year-old activist who became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner in October, 2014.

Dawn reported that the court in Swat valley announced the judgment after trial of the accused, finding four guilty and handing down 25 years imprisonment to each of them.

The activist survived the gun shots and recovered after treatment first in Pakistan and later in the UK, where she lives with her family.

Malala won worldwide acclaim for standing up for the right to education of girls in Swat valley in 2007 when Taliban controlled the region. 

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