🌐 WOMEN’S STORIES _ Malala Yousafzai
ArabNews, 29 March 2018
Malala
makes first trip to Pakistan since Taliban attack
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| In this file photo, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai participates in the Oslo Summit on Education for Development at Oslo Plaza, Norway July, 7, 2015. (REUTERS) |
ISLAMABAD:
Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai returned to Pakistan on Thursday,
officials said, 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.
Precize
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 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 October
9, 2012, asked “Who is Malala?” and shot her.
She was
treated for her injuries in the British city of Birmingham, where she completed
her schooling.
Winner of
the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, she has continued her campaigning while pursuing
her studies at Oxford University.
