Injured Peshawar schoolboy makes miraculous recovery

A cricket-mad Pakistani teenager, paralysed after being shot four times in the country's deadliest terror attack has made a "miraculous" recovery following treatment in the UK.

Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, 13, had been told by doctors in Pakistan that he would never walk again as he was paralysed from the waist down. Muhammad was shot in his shoulder, his hip, and his back during the attack, damaging his lower spine - leading to paralysis. At least 140 people, mostly children, were killed when Taliban gunmen stormed Peshawar's Army Public School last December. 

Muhammad's brother, Hamza was among those killed in the attack.

Muhammad, who arrived in London last month for surgery, is expected to be discharged from hospital soon, the BBC reported on Wednesday.

"Seeing him I felt like my soul had left my body," says Muhammad's father, Sher Khan."Those nine months were the hardest in my life." 

But Khan and his wife, Sherbano, refused to believe that their cricket-mad son would never be able to use his legs again.