The Pakistani teenage activist shot for advocating girls’ education has been flown to Britain to undergo further medical treatment. Fourteen-year-old Malala Yousafzai was on her way home from school last Tuesday when Taliban militants shot her in the head and neck, leaving her critically wounded. The Taliban says she was deliberately targeted for her vocal campaigning against efforts to stop girls from attending school. On Sunday, a Pakistani military spokesperson briefed reporters on Malala’s treatment and the effort to apprehend her attackers.

Asim Saleem Bajwa: “We met the team of doctors, and as per them, Malala is still on ventilator. They reduced her sedation today in order to carry out a better clinical assessment by the neurosurgeons. That happened. Malala did respond to that, and she did move her four limbs, which is a positive development that way. There have been apprehensions. There are investigations which are going on, and everyone concerned is trying to pursue and get hold of the gang which was involved in doing this.”