"Yes, she was religious, but not an extremist. She never tried to influence the class in the name of religion, never," he said. She lived in hostel and Iam not aware of her place of home.She had cleared her session in 2012-13 with good marks.Malik moved to Saudi Arabia from Pakistan about 25 years ago but returned home to study to become a pharmacist, according to two Pakistani officials. She had two brothers and two sisters and was related to Ahmed Ali Aulak, a former provincial minister.
Malik was from the Karor-Lal-Eisan of Layyah district in southern Punjab province, the officials said. She returned to Pakistan five or six years ago to complete a degree from Bahauddin Zakariya University in Multan.
An online transcript from Bahauddin Zakariya University uncovered shows Malik scored 74.88 percent on one of her pharmacy exams. One of Malik's uncles, Javed Rabbani, said Malik's father, Gulzar, changed while the family was living in Saudi Arabia.Malik moved to Saudi Arabia from Pakistan about 25 years ago but returned home to study to become a pharmacist, two Pakistani officials told Reuters. Malik, 27, was from the Layyah district in southern Punjab, the officials said.She returned to Pakistan seven years ago to complete a degree from Bahauddin Zakariya University in Multan, they said. A family member said he had been contacted by Pakistani intelligence as part of the investigation of Wednesday’s deadly shooting in San Bernardino, California.ISIS has claimed responsibility for the California attack on a social services agency that left 14 people dead.
The terror group announced in an online radio broadcast that two ISIS followers had carried out the attack in San Bernardino on Wednesday.
‘Two followers of Islamic State attacked several days ago a center in San Bernardino in California,’ the group’s daily broadcast al-Bayan said.U.S. government sources have said that there is no evidence the attack was directed by the militant group, or that the organization even knew who the attackers were.
The FBI is referring to the attack as an 'act of terrorism'.
President Obama used his weekly address on Saturday to highlight the need for the country to crack down on gun laws.‘We know that the kills in San Bernardino used military-style assault weapons – weapons of war – to kill as many people as they could,’ he said.
‘It’s another tragic reminder that here in America it’s way too easy for dangerous people to get their hands on a gun.’
He added: ‘Right now, people on the No-Fly list can walk into a store and buy a gun. That is insane.
‘If you’re too dangerous to board a plane, you’re too dangerous, by definition, to buy a gun.’
Mr Obama insisted that the United States ‘will not be terrorized’ and renewed his call for tighter gun control measures, in a weekly address that focused on the deadly shooting.
Mr Obama vowed that investigators would ‘get to the bottom’ of how and why the rampage occurred.
‘It is entirely possible that these two attackers were radicalized to commit this act of terror,’ he said.‘We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people – around the world and in our country – to commit terrible acts of violence, often times as lone wolf actors.
‘All of us – government, law enforcement, communities, faith leaders – need to work together to prevent people from falling victim to these hateful ideologies.’
The first photograph of the Muslim mother-turned-killer, Tashfeen Malik, 27, who carried out the savage attack emerged on Friday.
Attorneys representing the couple's family, Mohammad Abuershaid and Daniel Chesley, shed further insight into Malik's life saying that she wore a burka, didn't speak to male relatives and her in-laws had never seen her face.
At a press conference on Friday the attorneys also revealed that the Muslim couple met through a marriage and dating website some time in 2013 and wed in California the following year.
Abuershaid said that family members saw Malik as a 'very private', soft-spoken and caring housewife. He added that Malik spoke broken English.
'They were very traditional. When family would come over, the women would sit with the women and the men would sit with the men, so the men had never spoken to her,' Abuershaid said. '[Malik] wore a burka, so she was never seen by the men.'He said that very little is known about Malik and her family, who are believed to be in Saudi Arabia.
'She was a very, very private person. She kept herself isolated and she was very conservative,' Chelsey added. 'Because everyone knows so little, she's easy to pin things to.'
Malik studied to be a pharmacist in Pakistan, but did not work in the field in the United States, where she instead lived as a housewife with she and Farook's six-month-old baby.
She also chose not to drive voluntarily, Abuershaid said.
The attorney added that Farook's mother lived in the upstairs area of the couple's home and did not have knowledge of the planned attack on Wednesday.
The FBI announced Friday that it is investigating the mass shooting as an act of terrorism but said they did not believe the Muslim couple were part of a larger plot or members of a terror cell.
If the investigation confirms those initial suspicions, the attack would be the deadliest inspired by Islamic extremism on U.S. soil since September 11.
While authorities did not cite specific evidence that led them to the terrorism focus, a U.S. law enforcement official said that Malik, had under a Facebook alias pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and its leader al-Baghdadi.
A Facebook official said Malik praised Islamic State in a post at 11am Wednesday, around the time the couple stormed the Inland Regional Center where staff were enjoying a holiday party and opened fire. The profile was quickly removed from public view and its contents reported to law enforcement.
David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI's Los Angeles office, said on Friday that the shooters attempted to destroy evidence, including crushing two cell phones and discarding them in a trash can.
The FBI chief also had established that there were 'telephonic connections' between the couple and other people of interest in FBI probes.
Meanwhile friends have revealed that they knew Farook by his quick smile, his devotion to Islam and his talk about restoring cars.
They say they didn't know he was busy with his wife building pipe bombs and stockpiling thousands of rounds of ammunition for the assault on Farook's colleagues from San Bernardino County's health department.
Speaking at the Dar Al Uloom Al Islamiyah-Amer mosque, where Farook worshipped, assistant teacher Roshan Abassi said that Malik 'dressed modestly and didn't show her face'.
'He [Farook] hasn't come to our mosque for a while, it's been around a month,' Abassi said 'Even if she [Malik] would come, I couldn't see her because she was modestly dressed, she didn't show her face.'
He said he had spent some time speaking with Farook but claimed conversation was limited to pleasantries.
'He would say hello, how are you, what's up, what are your future goals,' he explained.
Fellow worshipper Nasser Shehata said he spoke to Farook regularly and described him as 'very quiet and shy'.
'He worked in the area but he lived in Riverside,' he said. 'He was a very quiet person, on the shy side. He prayed and he would leave.
'Two years [ago] he went to Saudi Arabia and married his wife but he didn't get radicalized there.
'Six months ago, he was very happy when his daughter was born and he looked forward to having a life with his daughter. Something changed in the last six months.' Nizaaam Ali, an acquaintance of Farook, told CNN that Farook never spoke of Malik and rarely spoke of their child - not even announcing the baby's birth.
Ali said Farook would come for the noon prayer each day during his lunch break from work.
'He was such a sweet young man,' Ali told CNN. 'Everyone who knew him always talked so highly of him. Until today. To try and understand this, it's really difficult for us.'
Ali was one of the 300 people that attended the wedding of Farook and Malik in August 2014 at the mosque.
However he said Farook 'never' brought his wife him to pray, because he would come from work, and when Ali did see Malik, she was always completely covered by a niqab.
'I wouldn't have been able to tell the color of her eyes even,' Ali told CNN. 'Was she skinny, was she fit? I don't know. I never saw her. (Farook) never described her. He never said anything about her.'
At this stage in the investigation, officials say it appears the couple were inspired by ISIS, rather than expressly ordered to carry out the attacks.
Some investigators believe Malik and Farook were self-radicalized, but it is also possible that someone may have motivated them.
'When relatives visited him, they would come back and tell us how conservative and hard-line he had become,' Rabbani said in an interview with Reuters.
The father had built a house in Multan, where he stays when he visits Pakistan, according to another uncle, Malik Anwaar.
He said Gulzar had a falling-out long ago with the rest of the family, citing a dispute over a house among other matters. 'We are completely estranged,' Anwaar said.
Rabbani said he had been contacted by Pakistani intelligence as part of the investigation into the San Bernardino shooting.
Friday's press conference came just hours after Malik and Farook's home was thrown open to the media.
The home revealed scores of family trinkets and toys that would have sat among boxes of ammunition and pipe bombs as they planned their attack.
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