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Malala Yousafzai returns to Pakistan for first time since shooting | |
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has returned to Pakistan for the first time since being shot by Taliban militants. | Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has returned to Pakistan for the first time since being shot by Taliban militants. |
Ms Yousafzai, now aged 20 and a vocal human rights activist, was shot in the head by a gunman for campaigning for female education in 2012. | Ms Yousafzai, now aged 20 and a vocal human rights activist, was shot in the head by a gunman for campaigning for female education in 2012. |
Details of the trip have been kept secret "in view of the sensitivity", an official told AFP news agency. | Details of the trip have been kept secret "in view of the sensitivity", an official told AFP news agency. |
She is expected to hold meetings with Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. | She is expected to hold meetings with Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. |
Pakistani television broadcast video that appeared to show her with her parents at Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International Airport under tight security. | Pakistani television broadcast video that appeared to show her with her parents at Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International Airport under tight security. |
At just 11, Ms Yousafzai began writing an anonymous diary for BBC Urdu about her life in north-west Pakistan under Taliban rule. | |
A vocal advocate for female education amid militant suppression, she was targeted on a school bus at 15, and her story catapulted her to international fame. | |
Following her shooting she was transported to the UK for treatment in Birmingham, where her family continue to live. | |
Since winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, she has continued campaigning while pursuing studies at Oxford University. | Since winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, she has continued campaigning while pursuing studies at Oxford University. |
She has repeatedly expressed her wishes to return to Pakistan, including at the World Economic Forum in January this year. | She has repeatedly expressed her wishes to return to Pakistan, including at the World Economic Forum in January this year. |