Malala visits Pakistan on 10th anniversary of Taliban shooting
- Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai was 15 when the Pakistani Taliban shot her in the head over her campaign for girls’ education
- She is visiting her native country to meet flood victims and ‘reinforce the need for critical humanitarian aid’
Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday returned to her native Pakistan to meet flood victims, 10 years after a Taliban assassination attempt against her.
Her visit, only the second since she was flown to Britain for life-saving treatment, comes as thousands of people protested in her hometown, where the same militant group is once again on the rise.
Yousafzai was 15 when the Pakistani Taliban, an independent group that shares a common ideology with the Afghan Taliban, shot her in the head over her campaign for girls’ education.
On Tuesday, two days after the 10th anniversary of the attack, she landed in Karachi, from where she will travel to areas devastated by unprecedented monsoon flooding.
Her visit aims “to help keep international attention focused on the impact of floods in Pakistan and reinforce the need for critical humanitarian aid”, her organisation Malala Fund said in a statement.
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