From the BBC:
People in Pakistan have been observing a day of prayer for the recovery of a 14-year-old girl shot in the head by Taliban gunmen…
Here at the hospital in Rawalpindi the security is extremely tight. They do not let anyone enter the wing where Malala is, and a few hours before Prime Minister Raja Pervaz Ashraf’s visit, they did not even allow the families of other patients to go in. They didn’t let a woman with a bouquet for Malala get close…
On Friday, school children dedicated prayers to her recovery in morning assemblies and she was also remembered during weekly prayers at mosques across the country…
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EDITOR: As tragic as is the harm to this brave, precocious and articulate fourteen year old girl, especially because of the learning moment for the youth of the country, this could be pivotal moment in the evolution of democracy for embattled Pakistan.
