Zardari to visit Malala in UK

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari was set to visit the United Kingdom yesterday to meet 14-year-old peace activist Malala Yousafzai, who is being treated at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital, sources told The Express Tribune.
Foreign office officials, terming the visit as an unprecedented gesture by President Zardari, because the president did not have any diplomatic engagements in the UK other than meeting Malala.
President Zardari who is accompanied by Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar will meet Malala following a visit to Iran, a source privy to the president's travel itinerary said.
Malala, who was shot while riding a school bus on October 9 in the Swat Valley, became the symbol of resistance against the Taliban, advocating access to education for girls in an area that has been one of the Taliban's main strongholds in the country.