Malala ‘overwhelmed’ by her homecoming


Heroine’s return: Malala (second from right) arriving in Islamabad to attend a summit on ‘Girls’ Education in Muslim Communities’. — AFP

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai said she was “overwhelmed” to be back in her native Pakistan, as she arrived for a global summit on girls’ education in the Islamic world.

The education activist was shot by the Pakistan Taliban in 2012 when she was a schoolgirl, and has returned to the country only a handful of times since.

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