SWAT: A firebrand Pakistani scholar has been detained for making death threats against Nobel prize laureate Malala Yousafzai over her comments on marriage, officials said. The issue was debated by MPs in her home province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, who said her comments were against Islam. "Malala is dreaming to become the country's prime minister but promoting obscenity," cleric Sardar Ali told students of a local seminary in the northwestern city of Lakki Marwat last week. Police official Wasim Sajjad told Agence France-Presse Sardar Ali had been charged with making threats, hate speech and inciting terrorism. She appeared on the front cover of the British edition of Vogue magazine last week dressed in a full-length designer gown and head scarf.

Source: Manila Times June 12, 2021 06:00 UTC