Nobel winner Malala returns to Pakistan for first time since being shot


  • World
  • Thursday, 29 Mar 2018

Pakistani Nobel Prize laureate and children's education advocate Malala Yousafzai arrives to address the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 20, 2017. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai returned to her native Pakistan on Thursday, six years after she was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen for advocating greater education of girls.

Pakistani station Geo TV showed footage of Yousafzai at Islamabad's international airport walking to a car escorted by a security convoy.

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