The father of Malala Yousafzai has revealed the family's affection for their new life in the UK and spoken out about how they like to relax at their home in the Midlands.

Malala, now 18, her father Ziauddin, mother Tor Pekai and two brothers Atal and Khushal, were forced to move to the UK in 2012 after the then schoolgirl was critically injured when a Taliban gunman boarded her school bus and shot her in the head near her home in the Swat Valley region of Pakistan.

Her remarkable story; surviving life-threatening injuries to become a celebrated role model as a global ambassador for peace, has been well documented but the family have rarely spoken out about the more pedestrian pleasures they enjoy as a family living in the UK.

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Aiming high: Ziauddin Yousafzai, pictured right with his daughter Malala, 18, has said that he wasn't unusual in Pakistan for wanting to educate his daughter but admits that he aimed higher than most, saying she had a 'right to achieve her potential'

Malala became the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in December 2014 when she was just 17-years-old

Malala has met world leaders, royalty and Hollywood A-listers and, in December 2014, stood before a star-studded audience to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, something usually bestowed on much older recipients.

Her close relationship with her father Ziauddin, 47, is well documented and he's credited with both leading Malala to education, a passion for studying that will most likely lead her to an Oxbridge place should she decide to stay in the UK, and guiding the family to a new life in the UK.

In a new interview with The Times, Ziauddin has offered a glimpse into their family life including how they have settled into their new home in Birmingham.

He has also offered insights into how the Yousafzai family like to spend their free time. Ziauddin reveals a family passion for mini-golf, bowling trips and, of course, cricket.

Ziauddin sheds some light on how his wife, denied an education for so long has spent much of her time in the UK learning to read and write English, something that would have been denied to her in Swat Valley, the Pakistani province the family once called home.

Meeting world leaders and royalty - including the Queen in October 2013 - has become a way of life for the Yousafzai family...but more pedestrian exploits such as bowling and mini-golf have also become favourite pursuits

Malala Yousafzai (second from right) stands with her father Ziauddin (left), mother Torpekai (right), and brothers Atal (second from left) and Khushal, after being announced as a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in October 2014 in Birmingham

He didn't clip my wings: Malala was shot in the head by the Taliban after she criticised mullahs in the Swat region of Pakistan. Since moving to the UK four years ago, she's become a global celebrity and has her own charity, Malala's Fund

It has been just four years since Malala was offered specialist treatment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham following critical head injuries sustained after the attack...a period of time that her father says feels more like 'three decades.'

A bullet narrowly missed her brain and she was later airlifted to Britain, where she underwent numerous surgeries and made a strong recovery.

While the mustachioed Ziauddin is regularly his daughter's chaperone at events around the world as she promotes her charity Malala's Fund, her mother Tor Pekai has remained away from the spotlight preferring to take advantage of free English classes and getting to grips with her new life.

Ziauddin, who founded his own school in Pakistan, says that the family have enjoyed a warm welcome and never experienced any hostility to the religious scarf and clothes that his wife wears.

Malala Yousafzai (right) stands with her mother Torpekai after being awarded the prize. Torpekai, denied an education for so long, has spent much of her time in the UK learning to read and write English

While Malala hopes to study at a top UK university, her mother has also been enable to access education in the UK with free weekly language classes

Respect: Malala's father says his wife and daughter have never faced any reaction to wearing their religious clothes and scarves on the streets of the UK

The education his wife and daughter are enjoying so much are 'positive revenge', he says, for his own childhood, where he watched his five sisters inhibited by the belief that girls shouldn't be educated.

Ziauddin adds that while other Pakistani fathers fought just as hard for their daughters to receive 'basic education', what makes him more unique is that he wanted her not just to be able to read and write but to completely fulfill her intellectual potential.