Summary Malala also plans to visit Africa and Latin America areas to empower the girls.
LONDON (Daily Dunya) - Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai has departed for Middle East alongwith her father Ziauddin Yousafzai.
Malala will celebrate her 20th birthday on June 12 with the refugee girls from conflict areas. She will assure them of her support and pledge to play a vital role for women rights.
Malala also plans to visit Africa and Latin America areas to empower the girls residing in those countries. Yousafzai had fought for years for the right of girls to education in her home region in Pakistan.
She leapt to global fame after a Taliban gunman shot her in the head on a school bus in October 2012 for defending her right to attend school.
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Since a successful operation following the attack, she has lived in the British city of Birmingham, where she continues to advocate for women’s rights.
Yousafzai excelled at school and has recently graduated, calling the achievement "bittersweet". She has been offered a place to study at Oxford University.
She has chosen to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics, a prestigious course that has produced many British politicians and world leaders including late Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
--- with inputs from AFP.
