AFP, Islamabad :
Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai Monday left for Britain after an emotional four-day visit to Pakistan, officials said.
Malala made a surprise return visit to Pakistan last week more than five years after she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman for advocating girls’ education.
“Malala Yousafzai along with her family left Islamabad,” a government official told AFP.
An airport official confirmed her departure.
During a reception at the Prime Minister’s Office last week, she tearfully said during a televised speech that it was “a dream” to finally return home.
“Always it has been my dream that I should go to Pakistan… in peace and without any fear.
“And I think that it’s my old home again … so it is actually happening, and I am grateful to all of you.”
Malala briefly visited her native Swat valley over the weekend during her first trip back to the once militant-infested region where she was targeted.
“I left Swat with my eyes closed and now I am back with my eyes open,” she said, referring to how she was airlifted out in a coma after the attack in 2012.
Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai Monday left for Britain after an emotional four-day visit to Pakistan, officials said.
Malala made a surprise return visit to Pakistan last week more than five years after she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman for advocating girls’ education.
“Malala Yousafzai along with her family left Islamabad,” a government official told AFP.
An airport official confirmed her departure.
During a reception at the Prime Minister’s Office last week, she tearfully said during a televised speech that it was “a dream” to finally return home.
“Always it has been my dream that I should go to Pakistan… in peace and without any fear.
“And I think that it’s my old home again … so it is actually happening, and I am grateful to all of you.”
Malala briefly visited her native Swat valley over the weekend during her first trip back to the once militant-infested region where she was targeted.
“I left Swat with my eyes closed and now I am back with my eyes open,” she said, referring to how she was airlifted out in a coma after the attack in 2012.
