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Malala Yusafzai: Father upbeat about future | |
(about 1 hour later) | |
The father of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl activist shot by the Taliban, has said his daughter is recovering well in the UK. | |
Ziauddin Yousafzai said his daughter would "rise again" to pursue her dreams. | |
He said he had cried when he saw for the first time Malala standing at the hospital in Birmingham. | |
He said it was "a miracle" she had survived a bullet grazing her brain. | |
The first time he had seen her after the shooting her "whole body was swollen". | |
Mr Yousafzai said he had considered making preparations for her funeral. | |
But when he saw her clean her own mouth with her shawl on a helicopter flight, he thought maybe her condition was not too serious. | |
Malala Yusafzai was first admitted to a hospital in the Swat valley, then flown by helicopter to Peshawar after gunmen shot her on her school bus in the main town of Mingora. | Malala Yusafzai was first admitted to a hospital in the Swat valley, then flown by helicopter to Peshawar after gunmen shot her on her school bus in the main town of Mingora. |
Turning point? | |
The Pakistan Taliban has claimed the attack, saying it shot her for "promoting secularism". | |
Malala had campaigned for the rights of girls to have an education and had written a diary for the BBC Urdu service when the Pakistan Taleban controlled Swat in 2009. | Malala had campaigned for the rights of girls to have an education and had written a diary for the BBC Urdu service when the Pakistan Taleban controlled Swat in 2009. |
Surgeons in Pakistan worked for days to save her life, operating on her to remove a bullet which had lodged in her neck. | |
She was moved to Britain because of the need for a safe environment for her recovery. | |
Mr Yousafzai said the Pakistani president had taken the decision to move her. | |
But he said his daughter had received "the right treatment at the right place at the right time". | |
"The person who attacked her, they wanted to kill her," Mr Yousafzai said. "But I will simply say that she fell temporarily. | |
"She will rise again. She will stand again and she can stand now. But when she fell, Pakistan stood." | |
He said he hoped the incident would be a turning point. | |
Mr Yousufzai has said his daughter will return to Pakistan once she has recovered and that she was determined to continue her schooling. | |
More surgery | More surgery |
Doctors at Queen Elizabeth hospital said she was still weak but stood every chance of making a good recovery. | |
They added that the girl will need a period of recuperation before undergoing further surgery. | |
Part of her skull will need to be reconstructed either by reinserting bone that was removed or by using a titanium plate. | Part of her skull will need to be reconstructed either by reinserting bone that was removed or by using a titanium plate. |
Since the attack, the teenager has received thousands of goodwill messages from around the world. | Since the attack, the teenager has received thousands of goodwill messages from around the world. |
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