AN EMOTIONAL HOMECOMING FOR
MALALA YOUSAFZAI.
SHE VISITED HER NATIVE
PAKISTAN FOR THE FIRST TIME
SINCE SHOT BY TALIBAN MILITANTS
IN 2012.
CBS 4'S TERI OKITA HAS THE
STORY FROM LONDON.
Reporter: 20-YEAR-OLD MALALA
YOUSAFZAI BROKE DOWN IN TEARS
CALLING THIS THE HAPPENIEST DAY
OF HER LIFE.
-- HAPPYIEST DAY OF HER LIFE.
SHE SAID SHE NEVER WANTED TO
LEAVE PAKISTAN AND DREAMED OF
THE DAY SHE WOULD RETURN.
I CAN REACH PEOPLE, I CAN
TALK TO PEOPLE.
I WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR MY HOME
AGAIN.
Reporter: THE NOBEL PEACE
WINNER LEFT HOME WHEN SHE WAS
14 AND IN THE FIGHT OF HER
LIFE, MILITANTS TARGETED HER
AND SHOT MALALA YOUSAFZAI IN
THE HEAD AS SHE ROAD HOME ON
HER SCHOOL BUS.
SHE RECEIVED MEDICAL TREATMENT
IN BRITAIN WHERE SHE LIVED EVER
SINCE AND NOW ATTENDS OXFORD
UNIVERSITY.
SHE SAID SHE HAS SEEN SO MUCH
IN HER YOUNG LIFE BUT THERE ARE
STILLB MANY-- SHILL MANY
CHALLENGES TO-- STILL MANY
CHALLENGES TO OVERCOME.
EDUCATION IS THE ONLY
SOLUTION.
Reporter: MALALA YOUSAFZAI'S
RETURN TO PAKISTAN WAS SHROUDED
IN SECRECY AND UNDER TIGHT
SECURITY.
HER VISIT PROMPTED A MEETING
WITH PAKISTAN'S PRIME MINISTER
AND MADE HEADLINES ACROSS THE
COUNTRY.
TO MANY, MANY PEOPLE HERE
AND IN OTHER COUNTRIES, MUSLIM
COUNTRIES, SHE IS A HERO.
Reporter: BUT SOME HAVE
CONDEMNED HER, CALLING HER A
MOUTH PIECE FOR THE WEST, SHE
IGNOREATHIZE CRITICS AND--
IGNORES THE CRITICS AND SAID
SHE IS ENCOURAGING GIRL'S
EDUCATION AT HOME AND AROUND
THE WRL E.
-- WORLD.
THE MALALA YOUSAFZAI FUND
HAS REPORTEDLY GIVEN $6 MILLION
TO SCHOOLS FOR BOOKS AND
UNIFORMS AND FOR US HERE IN
THIS COUNTRY, IT SEEMS LIKE
SUCH A NO BRAINER, EDUCATING
YOUNG WOMEN BUT THAT IS NOT THE
CASE ALL OVER THE WORLD.
