Pakistani Police Arrest Cleric After Threats to Kill Malala

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN - Pakistani police have arrested a cleric after a video of him in which he threatens Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai over her recent comments about marriage went viral on social media, officials said Thursday.

The cleric, Mufti Sardar Ali Haqqani, was arrested in Lakki Marwat, a district in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on Wednesday, said Waseem Sajjad, a local police chief. In the video, the cleric threatens to target Malala with a suicide attack when she returns to Pakistan, allegedly because of her comments earlier this month to British Vogue magazine about marriage that he claims insulted Islam. Yousafzai has been living in Britain since 2012, after the Pakistani Taliban shot and seriously wounded her. She was just 15 at the time and had enraged the Taliban with her campaign for girls’ education.