BBC News, 2
January 2013
 |
| Malala Yousafzai was flown to Birmingham for specialist treatment |
The father
of a Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by a Taliban gunman has been given a job
in Birmingham.
Ziaududdin
Yousafzai has been appointed education attaché at the Consulate of Pakistan in
the city, the Pakistan government has announced.
His
daughter Malala, 15, was treated in Birmingham after being shot in the head in
the Swat Valley on 9 October 2012.
The Taliban
said it shot Malala, a campaigner for girls' education, for "promoting
secularism".
Doctors
said the bullet grazed the teenager's brain when it struck her just above her
left eye.
Peace prize
petition
The
president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, visited Malala at Birmingham's Queen
Elizabeth Hospital on 8 December. The teenager was flown to the hospital to
receive specialist treatment.
The
Pakistan government said Mr Ali Zardari had also met Mr Yousufzai and assured
him his government would meet all the expenses of Malala's treatment and the
needs of the family while they were in the UK.
Mr
Yousufzai will be the head of the education section under the Head of Mission.
He has been
given the position for three years, which may be extended for a further two
years.
Tens of
thousands of people have since signed a petition calling for Malala to receive
the Nobel Peace Prize.
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