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July 17, 2013 Special Dispatch No. 5367

In Letter, Taliban Commander Adnan Rasheed Urges Malala Yousafzai To Return To Pakistan And Attend A Madrassa, Saying: 'Had You Been Shot... [By] The Americans In A Drone Attack, Would The World Have Ever Heard Updates On Your Medical Status?'

July 17, 2013
Pakistan | Special Dispatch No. 5367

In a letter written the day after celebrated liberal Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai addressed the world from the U.N., Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander Adnan Rasheed urged her to return to Pakistan and to attend a madrassa. Rasheed, who had been imprisoned for involvement in an assassination attempt on General Pervez Musharraf, was freed in a daring April 2012 jailbreak by TTP fighters.

The letter is a bid to counter arguments forwarded by Malala Yousafzai, who became well known for her then- anonymous online diary for BBC Urdu in 2009, when the Taliban militants began enforcing Islamic sharia rule in Pakistan's Swat district following a pact between the Pakistani government and the Taliban.

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