[Dawn] Pakistain's interior minister and the foreign ministers of Britannia and the UAE visited the English hospital treating shot Pak schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai on Monday, Britannia's Foreign Office said.Britannia's Foreign Office said the trio also met with the father of 15-year-old Malala, who was shot in the head by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) gunnies earlier this month for campaigning for girls' education in an attack that shocked the world.
She was flown from Pakistain on October 15 for treatment at a specialist hospital in Birmingham, central England, in an air ambulance provided by the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
"I visited the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham today to enquire after the health of Malala and to convey messages of good health and best wishes on behalf of the government and the whole Pak nation," said interior minister Rehman Malik
Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship.
"We are grateful to the hospital authorities, especially the doctors treating Malala, for taking care of her in a most professional manner. As a result, she has made very good recovery in the past few days."
He expressed gratitude to Britannia and the UAE for their support for Malala, who needs reconstructive surgery after a bullet grazed her brain, coming within centimetres of killing her.
"Malala's incident should not be seen in isolation," Malik said. "She is a symbol of courage and determination against the forces of Death Eater ideology.