Malala

After four hours, she deteriorated visibly, slipping towards unconsciousness.

"I was hoping that her cognitive abilities would still be there.

Continue reading the main story “Start Quote I was surprised that there is a little girl in Swat who can speak with a lot of confidence, but I was concerned about her security” Hamid Mir "I was surprised that there is a little girl in Swat who can speak with a lot of confidence, who's very brave, who's very articulate," Mir says.

"She was initially conscious, but restless and agitated, moving all her limbs," he says.

• Malala: Shot for Going to School Until 1969, it was a semi-autonomous principality - its ruler known as the Wali.

"She was precocious, confident, assertive," says Adnan Aurangzeb.

Camera crews besieged the hospital compound as a tide of shock and revulsion spread through Pakistan.

In Islamabad, the army chief General Ashfaq Kayani was taking a keen interest, but wanted a definitive and independent opinion on Malala's chances.

An army intensive care specialist was sent to bolster the team in Peshawar, but when Malala deteriorated further, she was airlifted again, this time to a bigger military hospital in Islamabad.

There are moments when she misses her old anonymity, but says it's "human nature" to want what you don't have.

Once she had walked, but then her mother, Tor Pekai, intervened.

Malala showed it to me, It is a poignant reminder of her search for answers in that period, especially the page where she simply asks, "Who did this to me?"

Soon afterwards, there was outrage across Pakistan after a video emerged from Swat showing the Taliban flogging a 17-year-old girl for alleged "illicit relations" with a man.

But she seems sanguine about any criticism.

When a journalist from BBC Urdu asked her father about young people who might be willing to give their perspective on life under the Taliban, he suggested Malala.

The result was the Diary of a Pakistani Schoolgirl, a blog for BBC Urdu, in which Malala chronicled her hope to keep going to school and her fears for the future of Swat.