Nobel Peace Prize victor and education campaigner Malala Yousafzai has been given two 24-hour armed guards after she was made a key target by terrorists, Daily Mail reported.
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The guards, who will be deputed round the clock, have been tasked to protect the teenager because spy chiefs warn that threats against her have been growing. She also won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, and became the youngest Nobel laureate in history.
While catching up with her studies, she continued to campaign for girls’ education. “Her elite police protection reflects this”, the source said.
The stories come after Pakistani officers stated in April that ten suspects who have been all a part of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan group have been discovered responsible of contributing to the “planning and execution” of the assassination try towards Yousafzai.
She was attacked in 2012 by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan, when she was riding home from school. She was shot as she and her buddies travelled to high school on a bus her residence city of Mingora. Malala suffered life-threatening injuries, but survived the ordeal after a bullet narrowly missed her brain.
Yousafzai’s father took to Twitter to announce that his award winning daughter had received excellent scores on her GCSEs, an important exam taken by all British teenagers. After initial treatment in Islamabad, she was flown to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham for further treatment. That work earned her the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.
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“Nothing that Malala Yousafzai achieves seems startling anymore but she continues to make Pakistan proud”, wrote the Express Tribune.
