Nobel peace prize recipient expected to spend four days in her native country, including a meeting with the prime minister
The Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai has returned to Pakistan, in her first visit to her native country since she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman for advocating education for girls in 2012.
Precise details of her itinerary have been “kept secret in view of the sensitivity surrounding the visit”, a government official said of the trip, which is expected to last four days and include a meeting with the prime minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.
Accompanied by her parents, the 20-year-old Yousafzai was escorted through Islamabad’s Benazir Bhutto international airport under tight security, according to still photographs broadcast on local television.
Malala has become a global symbol for human rights and a vocal campaigner for girls’ education since a gunman boarded her school bus in the Swat valley on 9 October 2012, asked “Who is Malala?” and shot her.
Considering the continued threat she's under for the Taliban it's rather extraordinary that she would return. That said it is home and she has stated she missed the mountains, rivers and valleys of the region where she lived until the age of 14.
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