Pakistani schoolgirl Malala back on her feet: hospital

LONDON - Agence France-Presse

An ambulance believed carrying 14-year-old Malala Yusufza, who was attacked by the Taliban for advocating women's education rights, as arriving with police escort to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for treatment on her injuries in Birmingham, central England, 15 October 2012. EPA photo

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani 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 Friday.

She is also communicating by writing notes, said Doctor Dave Rosser, the medical director at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, central England, where the teenager was taken to from Pakistan on Monday.