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PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A senior Taliban commander has described the attempted assassination of activist Malala Yousafzai as "shocking" and urged her to return home to Pakistan.
In a open letter to the young education campaigner, Adnan Rashid said he wished the attack by Taliban militants had "never happened."
However, Rashid did not apologize for the attack and said he would not discuss whether the Taliban's murder bid was "correct or wrong" or whether Malala "deserved to be killed or not."
"Let's leave it to Allah almighty," he added. "He is the best judge."
Gunmen attempted to kill the 14-year-old, who had campaigned and blogged about girls' education in the troubled Swat Valley, as she rode home on a school bus in October. A bullet passed through Malala's head and neck but she survived. Rashid said that he first heard of Malala, whose 16th birthday was marked Friday with an address at the United Nations, when he was in prison for allegedly masterminding a failed suicide attack on Pakistan’s former president General Pervez Musharraf.
“I was thinking how to approach you,” he wrote. “My emotions were brotherly for you because we belong to same Yousafzai tribe.”
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