The 14-year-old crusader of peace and child rights, Malala Yousafzai who was 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 she is showing tremendous improvements in her health, although signs of infection still exist.
According to Associated Press, ITV News and many other news reports, Dr. Dave Rosser, the medical director at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham revealed that Malala is communicating by writing notes as she is not able to talk due to a tracheotomy tube.
"She is well enough that she's agreed that she's happy, in fact keen, for us to share more clinical detail," Dr. Rosser told the AP. "She is also keen that I thank people for their support and their interest because she is obviously aware of the amount of interest and support this has generated around the world.
"She is communicating very freely, she is writing but not speaking because she has a tracheotomy tube in her throat. We have no reason to believe that she would not be able to talk once this tube is out, maybe in the next few days."
Malala, a strong opponent of Taliban's extremist ideology and a fearless campaigner for girls' education was shot by two Taliban gunmen in her school bus alone with two other classmates. Malala was shot in her head was treated in a military hospital in Peshawar before being moved to the UK in an air ambulance provided by the United Arab Emirates royal family.
Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Eshan claimed responsibility for the attack and said it was a planned decision to attack the 14-year-old girl for her "Western thinking" against which the militants had warned her family previously.
