Pakistan President to visit Malala in Birmingham hospital
President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zadari is due to visit Malala Yousafzai in hospital in Birmingham.
The 14-year-old made a name for herself by speaking out against the Taliban and advocating education for women. She wrote a blog for the BBC's Urdu Service about her experience living in the Swat Valley.
She is was shot in the head and neck after a Taliban militant boarded the school bus she was travelling on in the capital of the Swat Valley region Mingora. Doctors say her injuries are not life-threatening.
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