(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121025-malala2-650a.photoblog600.jpg)Nathalie Bardou / AP Participants of a vigil for Malala Yousufzai hold a poster of the shooting victim on Oct. 11 in Islamabad, Pakistan.By NBC News staff and wire reportsUpdated at 1 p.m. ET: The family of Malala Yousufzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban for speaking out for the right to an education, arrived in Britain Thursday to be reunited with her, NBC News has learned.
Follow @NBCNewsWorld (http://twitter.com/NBCNewsWorld)Meanwhile, Pakistan's interior minister Rehman Malik announced that Yousufzai was able to speak and had talked to her parents by telephone, The Associated Press reported.
On Oct. 15, Yousufzai was transferred to a hospital in the English city of Birmingham to receive specialized treatment for the injuries she suffered earlier in the month (http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/19/14553822-doctors-girl-shot-by-taliban-able-to-stand-communicate?lite).
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