Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai on Saturday joined a global summit ... challenges in ensuring equitable access to education for girls," Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said at the opening of the summit in the capital Islamabad.

ISLAMABAD – Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai said she was “overwhelmed ... in ensuring equitable access to education for girls,” Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said at the opening of the summit, backed by the Muslim World League.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday stressed the urgency of girls' education, saying that empowering this faction of the society was a key to lifting families and nations.Opening the

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif emphasised on Saturday that girls’ education is worth fighting for, worth committing resources to and worth advocating for. Earlier, he opened the two-day International Conference on Girls’ Education in Muslim Communities: Challenges and Opportunities, in Islamabad today.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai said she was "honoured” and “overwhelmed" as she arrived back in her native Pakistan Saturday to attend a summit on girls' education in the Muslim world.

The Nobel laureate said she was ‘overwhelmed’ to be back in her native Pakistan for a global summit on girls’ education in the Islamic world.

Speaking at the launch of a two-day international conference on challenges faced by women in seeking education, PM Shehbaz welcomed the participants, including Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, and expressed gratitude for King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for their support.

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

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday expressed concern over alarming 20.2 million children out of school in Pakistan, with the majority being girls.

ISLAMABAD : Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai said she was “overwhelmed” to be back in her native Pakistan on Saturday, as she attended a summit on girls’ education in the Islamic world that has been snubbed by Afghanistan’s Taliban government.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai on Sunday urged Muslim leaders to not "legitimize" the Afghan Taliban regime who has created a system of "gender apartheid." "Do not legitimize them (Taliban),

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, who stated she was “honored” and “overwhelmed” to be at the event, said she will hold Afghanistan's Taliban rulers "accountable" for rights violations when she addresses a Muslim-led summit on girls’ education on .