Baku:
Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari said on Tuesday that the shooting of 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai by the Taliban was an attack on all girls in the country and on civilisation itself.
"The Taliban attack on the 14-year-old girl, who from the age of 11 was involved in the struggle for education for girls, is an attack on all girls in Pakistan, an attack on education, and on all civilised people," Mr Zardari said at an economic summit in the Azerbaijani capital Baku.