ISLAMABAD: The alleged organiser of the shooting of Malala Yousufzai, claimed by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), was captured during a 2009 military offensive against the group but was released after three months, two senior officials told Reuters.They identified the man who planned the attack on 14-year-old Malala only as Ataullah, and said he was one of the two gunmen who shot her on a school bus this month in the Swat Valley.
Believed to be in his 30s, Ataullah is on the run and may have fled to neighbouring Afghanistan, they said. He organised the attack on the orders of one of the Taliban’s most feared commanders, Mullah Fazlullah, officials said.
Critics say Pakistan’s low conviction rate of militants, even high-profile ones who are alleged to have carried out major attacks, is one reason why extremism has spread in the South Asian nation.
The attack on Malala, an advocate of education for girls, has drawn widespread condemnation and raised fresh questions about Pakistan’s commitment to fighting militancy.
Doctors treating her in Britain have said Malala, a symbol of resistance to Taliban efforts to deprive girls of education, has every chance of making a “good recovery” after being shot in the head.
The Taliban have said they attacked her because she spoke out against the group and praised US President Barack Obama.
The two officials said Ataullah was detained by security forces after a 2009 Pakistani military campaign pushed the Taliban out of the Swat Valley.
“He spent three months in the custody of security forces but was freed after no evidence (of wrongdoing) was found,” one official said.
The second source, a senior security official, said authorities had gathered enough evidence to arrest Ataullah after raiding his house in the Swat Valley, a former tourist attraction.
If Ataullah is in Afghanistan, finding him could be difficult. Some of the world’s most dangerous militants have operated in the Pak-Afghan border area for years, a forbidding area hard for security forces to reach.
The officials said Pakistani security forces were trying other ways to bring him to justice.
“His mother and two brothers were taken into custody to force him to surrender,” said the second senior official. “Also two other close relatives of Ataullah have been taken into custody because we heard he spent the night in their house after his escape from Swat.”
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