By Lisa Dowd, Midlands Correspondent
The Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban will "rise again", her father has said.
Ziauddin Yusufzai his wife and two sons were reunited with 15-year-old Malala, who is being treated at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital, last night, after flying in from Islamabad.
He described her shooting - which came after she campaigned for girl's education in Pakistan - as a "turning point" for the country.
"She will rise again, she will stand again," he told a news conference.
"When she fell, Pakistan stood. This is a turning point."
Mr Yusufzai said she Malala was walking, talking, eating and smiling - and that all signs of infection were gone. He added that she would be having hearing and sight tests today.
Pakistani police are hunting prime suspect Atta ur Rehman He said: "I am thankful that you are very much concerned about my daughter's health. You have supported the cause for which she stands, the cause of peace and education."
He said Malala had just done a second mid-term exam and was on her way home in a school van in the Swat Valley on October 9 when two men stopped the vehicle at pistol point and asked which child was Malala, before one opened fire.
Mr Yusufzai, who was speaking as his 12 year old son Kushal Khan sat beside him, said Malala had received good wishes from all over the world.
"She is a daughter of everybody, a sister of everybody," he said.
When asked how he felt when he and his family saw Malala last night, he said: "I love her and last night when we met her there were tears in our eyes out of happiness."
Mr Yusufzai told reporters that he was thankful to doctors for the "excellent" and "world class" care Malala had received in Birmingham.
He was visibly moved as he described how he was told to prepare for Malala's funeral.
"I'm thankful to God," he said.
"I found angels on my side all around me ... she got the right treatment, at the right place, at the right time.
"In Pakistan for the first time we saw that all political parties, the government, children, women, elders, they were crying and praying to God. Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, indifferent of caste, colour or creed, they prayed for my daughter."
It comes after police in Pakistan named the prime suspect in connection with the shooting as 23-year-old Atta Ullah Khan, a chemistry student from the Swat district.
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