The Pakistan army have arrested the gunmen who tried to kill schoolgirl campaigner Malala Yousafzai in the country's restive northwest in 2012.
Malala Yousafzai, a teenage activist was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen for campaigning for girls' education, BBC reports.
The detention of the 10 men, a joint operation involving the army, police and intelligence agencies, came as part of the Pakistani military's ongoing offensive against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other extremist outfits.
"The group involved in the attack on Malala Yousafzai has been arrested," army spokesman Gen Asim Bajwa told a news conference on Friday.
He said the group was part of the TTP and the plan to kill Malala came from the network's current leader Maulana Fazlullah.
He said the army had found a list of 22 prominent activists from the Swat area, who the group was planning to attack after Malala.
The men are currently being interrogated and will face an anti-terrorism court soon, he said.
Malala Yousafzai, who was 15 at the time of the attack, had already gained prominence for demanding the rights to education for female children in Pakistan.
She was awarded the EU's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize last year.
