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WASHINGTON: The United States has asked Pakistan to ensure that all those responsible for the 2012 attack on Malala Yousafzai are brought to justice.
Malala, now 17, was shot in the head in October 2012 when she was returning home from school on a bus in Swat.
“We absolutely want those responsible to be brought to justice,” a US State Department spokesperson Marie Harf told a news briefing on Pakistan. “We also have repeatedly called on Pakistan to ensure due process in general on this case and others.”
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Ms Harf said the US government was trying to get more information about this case and “will have probably more to say” when it gets that information.
In an earlier briefing, the US State Department urged India and Pakistan to resume their talks, but refused to blame one or other for the postponing the dialogue process.
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Published in Dawn, June 7th, 2015
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