A senior Pakistan Taliban commander accuses Malala Yousafzai of running a "smearing campaign" against the Taliban.
A senior Pakistani Taliban
commander has written to Malala Yousafzai, the teenage activist shot by Taliban
fighters.
In an open letter released on
Wednesday, Adnan Rasheed, a former air force member turned Tehreek-e-Taliban
Pakistan (TTP) cadre, said he personally wished the attack had not happened,
but accused her of running a "smearing campaign" against
the Taliban fighters and urged her return home and join a madrassa.
"It is amazing that you are
shouting for education, you and the UNO (UN) is pretending that you were shot
due to education, although this is not the reason ... not the education but
your propaganda was the issue," Rasheed wrote.
He accused Malala of seeking to
promote an education system begun by the British colonialists to produce
"Asians in blood but English in taste" and said students should study
Islam and not what it called the "satanic or secular curriculum".
"I advise you to come back
home, adopt the Islamic and Pashtun culture, join any female Islamic madrassa
near your home town, study and learn the book of Allah, use your pen for Islam
and plight of Muslim ummah (community)," Rasheed wrote.
The letter, written in English,
was sent to reporters in northwest Pakistan and its authenticity confirmed to
AFP news agency by a senior Taliban cadre who is a close associate of Rasheed.
It is understood Malala has not received the letter herself.
Gunmen from the (TTP) shot
Malala, now 16, in the head in her home town in Swat, in the country's
northwest, where she campaigned for the right of girls to go to school, last
October.
Malala's fight back from her
injuries and speech at the UN have inspired people around the globe to back her
campaign for children to go to school, the response to her in Pakistan has been
mixed.
Many have hailed her as a
national hero but others have criticised her for promoting a
"Western" agenda
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