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Brave Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai met US President Barack Obama today and urged him to end drone strikes in her country.

The 16-year-old said the strikes were only “fuelling terrorism” and begged him to focus on education instead.

“I expressed my concerns that drone attacks are fuelling terrorism. Innocent victims are killed in these acts, and they lead to resentment among the Pakistani people,” she said after the meeting.

“If we refocus efforts on education it will make a big impact.”

Malala made an astonishing recovery after being shot at point blank range when Taliban gunmen attacked her schoolbus in Pakistan’s Swat Valley.

She was invited to the White House on Friday - the day President Obama signed a proclamation making it America’s ‘International Day of the Girl’.

She told the President, First Lady Michelle and the Obama’s 15-year-old daughter Malia there should be greater co-operation between their two countries.

And she called for an end to the hundreds of drone strikes against militant groups in northwest Pakistan, which the Pakistani government says frequently kill civilians and turn ordinary people against Islamabad and the US.

Malala, who now lives in Birmingham, where she was treated last year for her injuries, had attracted the anger of the Taliban by writing a blog chronicling the challenges of daily life under the Islamists.

She now campaigns for girls’ education and has written a book about her campaign work called ‘I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up For Education And Was Shot By The Taliban’.

She has won many awards and narrowly missed out on last week’s Nobel Peace Prize.

The teen said in a statement after the meeting that she was honoured to meet with the president, who is a Nobel Peace Prize recipient.