Video: Pakistan shot girl visited in hospital by ministers after operation Malala Yousafzai remains in a critical condition after being singled out by gunmen on her way home from school on Tuesday. Her courage in writing a blog about life under the Pakistan Taliban when they controlled the Swat Valley has turned her into a national hero in a country where few are brave enough to challenge extremism. Doctors, who operated on Malala in the early hours of the morning to remove a bullet from close to her spinal cord, have concluded she is too ill to be flown overseas for more specialist help. Pakistan's Interior Minister, Rehman Malik, visited Malala Yousaf in hospital and updated the media outside the building. Today, this morning when I talked to the senior doctors and the commanding officer, they told me that she was out of danger. She has to be kept under observation for 48 hours. So, in the meantime I am suspending the facility of the air ambulance which we had prepared for taking her abroad," Mr Malik said. He added: "The ones who committed this act, the one who shot at the girl, the whole gang has been identified and I promise the nation we will not let them run away, we will catch and punish them." Protesters marched in Peshawar demonstrating against the attack on the 14-year-old. Why kill a girl who wants peace? The one who is a small child. Islam always preaches to be affectionate with minors," one protester said.