Malala thanks for prayers in video statement
5 Feb 2013 5:42 AM IST
Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani teenage rights activist shot in teh head by Taliban, has made her first video statement on Monday, since she was nearly killed, saying she was recovering and thanked everyone for her ‘second life’.
Speaking clearly but with a slight stiffness in her upper lip, 15-year-old Malala said she was ‘getting better, day by day.’ ‘On Monday you can see that I am alive,’ she said in the video.
‘I can speak, I can see... It's just because of the prayers of people. Because all people - men, women, children - all of them have prayed for me,’ The Mirror quoted her as saying. ‘And because of all these prayers God has given me this new life - a second life. And I want to serve. I want to serve the people. I want every girl, every child, to be educated.
Speaking clearly but with a slight stiffness in her upper lip, 15-year-old Malala said she was ‘getting better, day by day.’ ‘On Monday you can see that I am alive,’ she said in the video.
‘I can speak, I can see... It's just because of the prayers of people. Because all people - men, women, children - all of them have prayed for me,’ The Mirror quoted her as saying. ‘And because of all these prayers God has given me this new life - a second life. And I want to serve. I want to serve the people. I want every girl, every child, to be educated.
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