29 March 2018 -
Nobel Peace Prize winner and Pakistani activist for girls' education, Malala Yousafzai returned to her native place early Thursday in her first visit since 2012 when angered Taliban militants shot her and injured gravely for edvocating greater education of girls.
Details of her visit was not confirmed public ahead of her landing and things were kept in relative secrecy.
Clad in a traditional shalwar Khameez dress the 20-year-old and her family met Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in capital city Islamabad. She also met some female ministers in the prime minister's office.
As security threats prevail against her, Yousafzai will not be visiting her home in Swat region of northwestern Pakistan even though the family had been been desiring to meet friends and relatives there.
In a tweet message about a week ago the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 expressed a longing to visit her homeland in Swat region.
Presently Yousafzai lives in Britain and persuing her studies at Oxford University. In October 2012 she was airlifted abroad and underwent surgery after masked gunmen shot her stopping a bus in which she was boarded along with some friends traveling from school to home. Two others were wounded too.
After recovery she was unable to return to homeland and moved to Britain. She has set up Malala Fund to support education advocacy groups in her country, Syria, Jordan, Kenya and Nigeria.
The attack was claimed by Pakistani Taliban group that had seized controle of Swat Valley before 2009 when army pushed them out. It was in response to Yousafzai's blog for the BBC Urdu service where she advocated education of girls.
During their rule the Taliban group destroyed schools in the Swat region and imposed strict interpretation of sharia Islamic law.
Author Sunil S.
Yousafzai is globally the most recognizable Pakistani.
Nobel Peace Prize winner and Pakistani activist for girls' education, Malala Yousafzai returned to her native place early Thursday in her first visit since 2012 when angered Taliban militants shot her and injured gravely for edvocating greater education of girls.
Details of her visit was not confirmed public ahead of her landing and things were kept in relative secrecy.
Clad in a traditional shalwar Khameez dress the 20-year-old and her family met Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in capital city Islamabad. She also met some female ministers in the prime minister's office.
As security threats prevail against her, Yousafzai will not be visiting her home in Swat region of northwestern Pakistan even though the family had been been desiring to meet friends and relatives there.
In a tweet message about a week ago the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 expressed a longing to visit her homeland in Swat region.
Presently Yousafzai lives in Britain and persuing her studies at Oxford University. In October 2012 she was airlifted abroad and underwent surgery after masked gunmen shot her stopping a bus in which she was boarded along with some friends traveling from school to home. Two others were wounded too.
After recovery she was unable to return to homeland and moved to Britain. She has set up Malala Fund to support education advocacy groups in her country, Syria, Jordan, Kenya and Nigeria.
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The attack was claimed by Pakistani Taliban group that had seized controle of Swat Valley before 2009 when army pushed them out. It was in response to Yousafzai's blog for the BBC Urdu service where she advocated education of girls.
During their rule the Taliban group destroyed schools in the Swat region and imposed strict interpretation of sharia Islamic law.
Author Sunil S.
Yousafzai is globally the most recognizable Pakistani.
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