PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Police in Pakistan have actually apprehended a cleric after a video of him went viral on social networks, in which he threatens Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai over her current remarks about marital relationship, authorities stated Thursday.
The cleric, Mufti Sardar Ali Haqqani, was apprehended in Lakki Marwat, a district in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on Wednesday, stated Waseem Sajjad, a regional authorities chief.
In the video, the cleric threatens to target Malala with a suicide attack when she goes back to Pakistan, supposedly since of her remarks previously this month to British Vogue publication about marital relationship that he declares insulted Islam.
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Yousafzai has actually been residing in Britain considering that 2012, after the Pakistani Taliban shot and seriously injured her. She was simply 15 years of ages at the time and had actually infuriated the Taliban with her project for women education.
At one point in the Vogue interview, Malala states: “I still don’t understand why people have to get married. If you want to have a person in your life, why do you have to sign marriage papers, why can’t it just be a partnership?”
The remark triggered a stir on social networks in Pakistan and irate Islamists and clerics like Haqqani. Under Islamic laws, couples cannot cohabit outdoors marital relationship.
Malala’s dad, Ziauddin Yousafzai, safeguarded her on Twitter, stating her remarks were gotten of context.
Malala, now 23, was granted the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for working to safeguard kids from slavery, extremism, and kid labor. She briefly checked out Pakistan in 2018.
She stays extremely popular in Pakistan however is likewise extensively slammed by Islamists and hard-liners.
In February, Malala’s 2012 assailant threatened a 2nd effort on her life, tweeting that next time, “there would be no mistake.” Twitter consequently completely suspend the account with the enormous post.
The danger triggered Yousafzai to tweet herself, asking both the Pakistani military and Prime Minister Imran Khan to describe how her supposed shooter, Ehsanullah Ehsan, had actually gotten away from federal government custody.
Ehsan was apprehended in 2017, however left in January 2020 from a so-called safe home where he was being held by Pakistan’s intelligence firm. The scenarios of both his arrest and escape have actually been shrouded in secret and debate.
