Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari paid a visit to Malala Yousufzai on Saturday at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
Malala is the girl who was shot by the Pakistani Taliban for campaigning for girls' education. She is presently recovering in the British hospital where she was flown from Pakistan in October following the brutal attack on her school bus.
Zardari called Malala as a remarkable girl and a credit to Pakistan.
Hospital in a statement said, "President Zardari, accompanied by his daughter Asifa Bhutto, met with clinicians who have been treating Malala since her admission to the hospital. They were brought up to date on the 15-year-old's medical progress and her future treatment plan".
Zardari also met Malala's family for five minutes.
15-year-old was shot in the head and neck on October 9 when she was returning from school. The bullet grazed her brain and she miraculously survived the assassination attempt.
She was shot by Taliban as punishment for the crime of campaigning for girls' rights to go to school.
Malala rose to prominence at the age of 11, by writing a blog for the BBC Urdu service describing life under the Taliban's hardline rule in the Swat valley in northwestern Pakistan.
There have been calls for the teenager to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, while the United Nations declared a global "Malala Day" last month to show support for her education campaign.
She was awarded the Pakistani government's first national peace award and was also nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize.
(with inputs from ANI)
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