Malala invited to meet Queen Elizabeth

This undated photo released by Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, shows Malala Yousufzai, the 15-year-old girl who was shot in the head at close range by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan, as she reads cards from well-wishers at a hospital in Birmingham, England. Her father Ziauddin Yousufzai spoke on behalf of Malala, thanking people from around the world for their inspiring and humbling support, speaking exactly a month after she was targeted as she traveled home with classmates on a school bus. Malala was flown to Britain for specialist treatment at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital after escaping death by inches when a bullet "grazed" her brain last month. (AP Photo/Queen Elizabeth Hospital) NO SALES

Impressed by the bravery of Pakistani girls’ education campaigner Malala Yousafzai, Queen Elizabeth II has invited her to the Buckingham Palace.

The Queen has also asked Pakistan’s high commissioner to the UK, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, about her recovery, the Sunday Times reported on Sunday.

Malala has given her first detailed account to the British newspaper of what happened when she was shot on the way home from school in Pakistan a year ago.

“I was terrified. Where were my parents? Who had brought me there?” she said, in reference to her four operations in Britain and crediting the surgeons for giving her a ‘second life’.

“I didn’t know what had happened. The nurses weren’t telling me anything. Even my name. Was I still Malala? No one told me what was going on or who had brought me to the hospital,” recalled Malala.

She then became so worried about the cost of her treatment that she thought of sneaking out of hospital to get a job. “I thought, ‘I need to go out and start working to earn money,’” she said.