A firebrand Pakistani scholar has been detained for making dying threats towards Nobel prize laureate Malala Yousafzai over her feedback on marriage, officers stated Friday.
Since surviving an assassination try by the Taliban at aged 15 in rural northwest Pakistan, the Oxford graduate has change into a worldwide determine selling training for ladies.
But a current interview with the style journal Vogue stirred debate in her house nation — the place she is already a divisive determine — when she questioned whether or not a authorized union between a pair was obligatory.
The concern was debated by MPs in her house province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, who stated her feedback had been towards Islam.
“Malala is dreaming to change into the nation’s prime minister however selling obscenity,” cleric Sardar Ali told students of a local seminary in the northwestern city of Lakki Marwat last week.
He added that he would blow her up in a suicide attack if she returned. Police official Wasim Sajjad told AFP Sardar Ali had been charged with making threats, hate speech, and inciting terrorism.
The arrest was confirmed by a second senior police official, Muhammad Imran. Last year Yousafzai called out Prime Minister Imran Khan on Twitter after a Taliban militant who claimed to have been behind her attack escaped from detention.
She appeared on the front cover of the British edition of Vogue magazine last week dressed in a full-length designer gown and headscarf.
“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?” she requested, in an interview the place she stated she was nonetheless deciding what to do after ending her diploma.
Though celebrated in lots of quarters, Yousafzai has obtained backlash in Pakistan over time, the place some say world consideration on the try on her life has given the nation a foul fame.
She can be criticized for her perceived championing of Western liberal values and has confronted fixed scrutiny over her clothes and views on world affairs.
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