PESHAWAR // The leader of Pakistan's largest religious political party has cast doubt on the Taliban shooting of Malala Yousafzai, saying he did not believe she was hit in the head.
Doctors have said the bullet grazed her brain and travelled through her head and neck before lodging in her left shoulder. But the pro-Taliban cleric Fazlur Rehman, the head of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl party, dismissed the medical assessment.
"Pictures shown on social media have shown the whole character as suspicious because there was no sign of injury after the dressing was removed," he said on Sunday. "It shows that the bullet did not hit her in the head."
