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Published 00:18 IST, February 7th 2020

Malala Yousafzai's shooter escapes Pakistan prison, releases audio clip

Former spokesman of Taliban --- Ehsanullah Ehsan who shot Pakistani activist and Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, has confessed that he has escaped.

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Former spokesman of Taliban, Ehsanullah Ehsan who was involved in scores of terror attacks including the massacre of school children of Army Public School of Peshawar in Pakistan, and who shot Pakistani activist and Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, has confessed that he escaped from the Pakistani prison earlier this year.

In a video circulating on Twitter, the Ehsanullah Ehsan admits that he was involved in terrorist attacks and that he escaped the prison. 

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In the audio clip released, he could be heard as saying: "Pakistan held me captive along with my children. I suffered imprisonment for three years and I could suffer no more. With God's help I successfully escaped the prison dated 11 January, 2020."

(Photo: PTI)

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00:07 IST, February 7th 2020