Islamabad: Four Pakistani Taliban militants were on Thursday sentenced to 25 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court for their role in the 2012 attack on Malala Yousafzai, the teenage child rights activist who last year won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants had claimed responsibility for the attack on Malala in October 2012 when she was returning from her school in the Mingora town of Swat district.
Pakistan Army in September, 2014 arrested ten men involved in the attack on the 17-year-old activist who became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner in October, 2014.
Dawn reported the court in Swat valley announced the judgment after the trial found four guilty. It handed them a jail term of 25 years each.
The activist survived the gunshots and recovered after treatment first in Pakistan and later in the UK, where she now lives with her family.
Malala won worldwide acclaim for standing up for the right to education of girls in Swat valley in 2007 when Taliban controlled the region.
