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| Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head on Tuesday as she headed home from school |
Surgeons in Pakistan say they have removed a bullet from a 14-year-old girl who was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen in the Swat Valley.
Malala Yousafzai, a campaigner for girls' rights, is reported to be in a stable condition after the operation.
Gunmen attacked Miss Yousafzai and also wounded two other girls as they left school on Tuesday, sparking international condemnation.
The militants said they targeted her because she "promoted secularism".
A spokesman for the Islamist militant group, Ehsanullah Ehsan, told BBC Urdu on Tuesday that Miss Yousafzai would not be spared if she survived.
The BBC's Aleem Maqbool in Islamabad says the authorities will now have to consider how to protect the girl.
He says her family never thought about getting security because they just did not think that militants would stoop so low as to target her.
Doctors said one of the other girls shot in the attack was in a critical condition, and the other was not seriously hurt.
Source: BBC
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