Pakistan prays for Malala Yousafzai (PHOTOS)
Pakistani Islamist activists carry photographs of the gunshot victim Malala Yousafzai during a protest rally against her assassination attempt, in Lahore on October 10, 2012. Pakistani doctors removed a bullet from a 14-year-old child campaigner shot by the Taliban in a horrific attack condemned by national leaders and rights activists. The attack took place in Mingora, the main town of the Swat valley in Pakistan’s northwest, where Malala had campaigned for the right to an education during a two-year Taliban insurgency which the army said it had crushed in 2009.
People in Pakistan observed a day of prayer for Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old rights activist who wrote about life in the Swat Valley under the Taliban.
Malala, who was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen, remains in critical condition. She has become a powerful symbol and rallying point for rights activists, and the incident has prompted outrage and protests across Pakistan.
The BBC said school children on Friday dedicated their prayers to her recovery, and she was also remembered in weekly prayers at mosques around the country.
Rallies were held in Islamabad, Peshawar, Lahore, Multan and Malala's hometown of Mingora, in support of Malala.
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