BBC's Mishal Husain To Conduct Major Interview With Malala Yousafzai

London, May 1, 2013 – The BBC's Mishal Husain will do the first interview with Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban in October.

The BBC team will be filming with Malala as she visits the United Nations to speak about her passion for girl's education.

Mishal will also be spending time at home with Malala filming daily life with this remarkable young woman who is balancing school work, and campaigning while still undergoing treatment as a result of the shooting.

The interview will air in October - a year after the Taliban tried to kill Malala - and will coincide with a similar interview conducted by Diane Sawyer of ABC, who are the BBC's partners in the USA.

The interview will be broadcast on the BBC in the UK, on BBC Urdu and on BBC World News, the BBC's international news channel which broadcasts to more than 350 million households around the world. It will also feature on BBC World Service and BBC.com.

This interview is due to form a central part of a planned 'Panorama' film on her story and will be her first major interview since the attack.

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