The ministry
said the trio also met with the father of 15-year-old Malala, who was
shot in the head by the Taliban earlier this month as punishment for
campaigning for girls' education in an attack that shocked the world.
She
was flown from Pakistan on October 15 for treatment at a specialist
hospital in Birmingham, central England, in an air ambulance provided by
the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
LONDON:
Pakistan's interior minister and the foreign ministers of Britain and
the UAE visited the English hospital treating Malala Yousafzai on
Monday, Britain's Foreign Office said.
"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 Pakistani nation," said interior
minister Rehman Malik.
"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
Britain and the UAE for their support for Malala, who needs
reconstructive surgery after a bullet grazed her brain, coming within
centimetres of killing her.
British foreign minister
William Hague said: "Malala's swift and full recovery is our absolute
priority. But we are also determined to do all we can to champion
education for women and girls in Pakistan.
"The people of
Pakistan have paid a high price from terrorism and extremism. We will
stand by all those who, like Malala, are courageously defending the
rights of women, in Pakistan and around the world."
The
UAE's foreign minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan, said his
government had provided assistance because its citizens were "appalled"
by the attack on Malala.
"She is in our prayers," he said.
"Malala's courage inspires us to reinforce our commitment to rejecting
ideologies rooted in intolerance and extremism."