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India-Pakistan
Malala back on her feet
2012-10-20
[Bangla Daily Star] Malala Yousafzai, the Pak schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban, has been able to stand with help for the first time, doctors treating her at a British hospital said yesterday.

She is unable to talk because a breathing tube has been inserted into her windpipe but she can communicate by writing, said Dave Rosser, the medical director at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, central England.

Despite the news of Malala's progress, he warned that she is "not out of the woods yet", her doctors' chief concern being an infection in the bullet track through her head.

Malala was shot on a school bus in the former Taliban stronghold of the Swat
...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...
valley on October 9 as a punishment for campaigning for the right of girls to an education, in an attack which outraged the world.

On Monday she was flown in an air ambulance from Pakistain to Birmingham, Britannia's second city, where she is being cared for in the hospital that treats British soldiers seriously maimed in kabooms and shootings in Afghanistan.
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