‘Next time, there would be no mistake’: Taliban militant threatens Malala Yousafzai on Twitter
2 min read A Pakistani Taliban militant who 9 years in the past is alleged to have shot and badly wounded Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai has threatened a second try on her life, tweeting that subsequent time, “there would be no mistake.” Twitter on Wednesday completely suspended the account with the menacing submit.
The risk prompted Yousafzai to tweet herself, asking each the Pakistan navy and Prime Minister Imran Khan to elucidate how her alleged shooter, Ehsanullah Ehsan, had escaped from authorities custody.
Ehsan was arrested in 2017, however escaped in January 2020 from a so-called protected home the place he was being held by Pakistan’s intelligence company. The circumstances of each his arrest and escape have been shrouded in thriller and controversy.
Since his escape, Ehsan has been interviewed and has communicated with Pakistani journalists through the identical Twitter account that carried the Urdu-language risk. He has had multiple Twitter account, all of which have been suspended.
The authorities is investigating the risk and had instantly requested Twitter to close down the account, mentioned Raoof Hasan, an adviser to the prime minister.
Ehsan, a longtime member of the Pakistani Taliban or Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan as they’re recognized, urged Yousafzai to “come back home because we have a score to settle with you and your father.” The tweet added that “this time there will be no mistake.” Yousafzai, who has setup a fund that promotes training for ladies worldwide and even financed a ladies’ faculty in her residence within the Swat Valley, known as out the federal government and the navy over Ehsan’s tweet.
“This is the ex-spokesperson of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan who claims the attack on me and many innocent people. He is now threatening people on social media,” she tweeted. “How did he escape?” Associated Press queries to the navy have been unanswered.
The expenses in opposition to Ehsan embody a horrific 2014 assault on a Pakistani military’s public faculty that killed 134, largely youngsters, some as younger as 5 years previous.
He additionally claimed accountability for the 2012 capturing of Yousafzai in Swat Valley. In the assault, the gunman walked as much as Yousafzai on a faculty bus wherein she was travelling, requested for her by title after which fired three bullets. She was simply 15 years previous on the time and had enraged the Taliban together with her marketing campaign for ladies training.
Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, a trainer, ran a faculty in Swat Valley for girls and boys. In 2007 when the Pakistani Taliban took management of the world, they pressured ladies out of faculties and dominated with a brutal hand till 2009, after they have been pushed out by the Pakistani navy.
During his years in navy custody, Ehsan was by no means charged. Authorities additionally later by no means defined how he left the nation and travelled to Turkey, the place he’s believed to be residing at present.
