A teenage rights activist was flown to Britain for specialist long-term care on Monday after being shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for the right to education.

Malala Yousafzai, 14, who was attacked on her school bus in Swat valley last Tuesday, was sent abroad at a time when her condition is "optimal and before any unforeseen complications set in", the ISPR said.
An air ambulance provided by the United Arab Emirates took off from Islamabad airport after daybreak, and ISPR said an intensive care specialist was accompanying her.
The shooting has been denounced worldwide and by Pakistan, which has said it will do everything possible to ensure Malala recovers, paying for her treatment and offering more than $100,000 for the capture of her attackers.
The cold-blooded murder attempt has sickened Pakistan, where Malala came to prominence with a blog for the BBC highlighting atrocities under the Taliban, who terrorised the Swat valley from 2007 until a 2009 army offensive.
On Sunday around 10,000 people gathered in Karachi for a rally in support of Malala, organised by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) political party.
MQM leader Altaf Hussain, who lives in London and addressed the rally by telephone, condemned the Taliban and called on Pakistanis to unite against the militants, who he said were dragging the country to hell.
But right-wing and conservative religious leaders have refrained from publicly denouncing the Taliban. They have warned the government against using the attack on Malala as a pretext for an offensive in North Waziristan.
Malala was first airlifted from Swat to a military hospital in Peshawar, then to the country's top military hospital in Rawalpindi, where doctors on Sunday took her off a ventilator for a "successful" short trial.
The ISPR said a panel of Pakistani doctors and international experts agreed Malala needed "prolonged care to fully recover from the physical and psychological effects of trauma that she has received".
It was also expected that damaged bones in her skull would need to be repaired or replaced, and that she would need "long-term rehabilitation, including intensive neuro-rehabilitation".
ISPR has not disclosed the name or location of the centre where Malala will be treated, but said it had the "capability to provide integrated care to children who have sustained severe injury".
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Malala would receive specialist care in a National Health Service hospital and reiterated condemnation of the shooting.
"The public revulsion and condemnation of this cowardly attack shows that the people of Pakistan will not be beaten by terrorists. The UK stands shoulder to shoulder with Pakistan in its fight against terrorism," he said.
Security worries meant Malala's departure -- in a white airliner with no insignia but a black stripe down the side, according to a  TV footage -- was not announced until the plane was airborne.
The army said all expenses, including Malala's air ambulance flight and treatment abroad, would be covered by the government of Pakistan.
Schools and mosques across Pakistan have held special prayers for Malala.
A senior police official has told AFP investigators have questioned dozens of suspects, but that the hunt for the main culprits is continuing.
Ahmad Shah, police station chief in Mingora where Malala was shot, has said nearly 200 people were detained including the bus driver and a school watchman. But most had been released.