Nobel Winner Malala Returns to Pakistan for First Time Since Being Shot

Malala Yousafzai pictured on Sept. 3, 2013 in Birmingham, England. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

ISLAMABAD—Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai returned to her native Pakistan on Thursday, six years after she was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen for advocating greater education of girls.

Pakistani station Geo TV showed footage of Yousafzai at Islamabad’s international airport walking to a car escorted by a security convoy.