Pakistani
Christians attend a prayer service for the recovery of schoolgirl
activist
Malala Yousafzai (AFP/File, Arif Ali)
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LONDON —
Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday visited a Pakistani
schoolgirl who is recovering in a British hospital after she was shot by the
Taliban for campaigning for girls' education.
Zardari
also met with 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai's family during a private meeting at
the specialist Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, central England, where
Malala was flown from Pakistan in October following the brutal attack on her
school bus.
Malala Yousafzai was attacked last month with two other girls while travelling home from school in the Swat Valley. Photograph: Queen Elizabeth Hospital/PA |
"They
were brought up to date on the 15-year-old's medical progress and her future
treatment plan by (the trust's) medical director, Dr Dave Rosser."
In an
attack that shocked the world, Malala was shot in the head on October 9 as
punishment for the "crime" of campaigning for girls' rights to go to
school.
She
miraculously survived the murder attempt but requires reconstructive surgery
after the bullet grazed her brain, coming within centimetres of killing her.
There have
been calls for the teenager to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, while
the United Nations declared a global "Malala Day" last month to show
support for her education campaign.
Pakistan is
paying for her care at the Queen Elizabeth hospital, which also treats British
soldiers seriously wounded in Afghanistan.
Malala has
received thousands of goodwill messages from around the world and has said she
is overwhelmed by the outpouring of support.
She rose to
prominence aged just 11, writing a blog for the BBC Urdu service describing
life under the Taliban's hardline rule in the Swat valley in northwestern
Pakistan.
She was
awarded the Pakistani government's first national peace award and was also nominated
for the International Children's Peace Prize.
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