Malala’s shooter escapes from Pakistan prison

PAKISTAN Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai’s shooter Ehsanullah Ehsan escaped from an Army jail last month.

In an audio recording released on Thursday (6) and shared via an online private messaging platform, Ehsanullah claimed that he has escaped from jail on January 11.

Speaking in Urdu, Ehsanullah claimed that he had followed the law in the last three years but Pakistan's dishonest and corrupt institutions had deceived him and his family.

He said that he would soon expose all the officials who were involved in the conspiracy against him.

In 2012, he shot then school Malala in the head for defying Taliban diktats and pursuing her education and highlighting atrocities of the militant outfit.

Ehsanullah is also a prime accused in the 2014 Army Public School (APS) Peshawar attack in which 134 school children and 15 staff members were killed.

In 2017, he surrendered before the Pakistan Army under "mysterious circumstances".

Soon after his surrender, a Pakistani TV channel was allowed to interview Ehsan who at the time claimed that he was working for India's external intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW).

Reports said that even after three years in custody, the Pakistani Army was yet to file a charge sheet against him.

Ehsanullah was also involved in the suicide bombing of Shiites in Rawalpindi and Karachi, killing nine foreign tourists and their guide in the Gilgit-Baltistan area.

He was the kingpin behind the suicide attack near the Wagah border and the 2016 bombing of an Easter gathering in a Lahore park that killed at least 75 people and injured more than 300.

Malala was the youngest Nobel laureate when she won the prize at the age of 17 in 2014.