Pakistani schoolgirl Malala back on her feet: Hospital
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A student holds a placard during special prayers for the recovery of Malala Yousufzai, who was shot by the Taleban, at the Sacred Heart Cathedral School in Lahore on Oct 19, 2012. Malala Yousafzai, has been able to stand with help for the first time, doctors treating her at a British hospital said on Friday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
LONDON (AFP) - Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taleban, has been able to stand with help for the first time, doctors treating her at a British hospital said on Friday.
She is also communicating by writing notes, said Doctor Dave Rosser, the medical director at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, in central England, where the teenager was taken to from Pakistan on Monday.
She was shot on a school bus in the former Taleban stronghold of the Swat valley last week as a punishment for campaigning for the rights of girls to an education, in an attack which outraged the world.
"Malala Yousufzai's condition this morning is comfortable and stable," the hospital said in a statement.
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