President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday asked the concerned government authorities to provide free medical care to the other two students injured in the attack on Malala Yousufzai. Spokesperson to President, Senator Farhatullah Babar said that the President enquired about the health of Shazia and Kaainat, the school fellows of Malala, who were travelling with her in the same van and were brutally attacked by the militants.
The President said that the quest for knowledge of all these children despite threats, had illumined the path for all. They represented the true face of Pakistan, were a national asset and had raised collective national consciousness against the barbarism of militants and extremists, he said. The President called for report on their condition as well as free medical care, the spokesperson said. President Zardari also prayed for early recovery of Malala, Shazia and Kaainat.