An air ambulance transporting Yousufzai, provided by the United Arab Emirates, departed from Islamabad lands at Birmingham Airport England.
Fourteen-year-old Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl shot in the head by Taliban gunmen in Swat, has arrived in the UK for medical treatment.
A renowned campaigner for girls' education, she was attacked on her way home from school last Tuesday and a bullet was removed from her skull.
The Taliban said they targeted her for "promoting secularism".
She is in a serious condition and is being taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham for treatment.
Malala was flown from Pakistan on board an air ambulance provided by the United Arab Emirates and accompanied by a full medical team.
A bullet which hit Malala's skull was removed by surgeons in Peshawar in north-west Pakistan last week but she was later transferred to a military hospital for more specialist treatment.
Although Pakistan had initially insisted she could be treated in her home country, a military statement said that a panel of doctors had recommended she be "shifted abroad to a UK centre which has the capability to provide integrated care to children who have sustained severe injury".
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital has a recently-opened major trauma centre specialising in both gunshot wounds and head injuries.
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