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    Malala Yousafzai returns to Pakistan for first time since shooting

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    Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has returned to for the first time since being shot by Taliban militants.

    Ms Yousafzai, now aged 20 and a vocal human rights activist, was shot in the head by a gunman for campaigning for female education in 2012.

    She is expected to hold meetings with Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.

    Details of the trip have been kept secret “in view of the sensitivity”, an official told news agency.

    Pakistani television broadcast video that appeared to show her with her parents at 's Benazir Bhutto International Airport under tight security.

    The trip is expected to last four days and she arrived with officials from her Malala Fund group, local media report.

    Image caption A car said to be carrying Ms Yousafzai was photographed at a hotel in Islamabad on Thursday (left)

    It has not been confirmed if she will visit her family's hometown of Swat in the country's rural north-west during her visit.

    Why was she attacked?

    At just 11, Ms Yousafzai began writing an anonymous diary for Urdu about her life under Taliban rule.

    A vocal advocate of female education amid militant suppression in Pakistan, she was deliberately attacked on a school bus at 15. Malala's…

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