The Taliban government in Afghanistan has turned down an invitation by neighbouring Pakistan to participate in a global summit on girl's education in the Muslim world. Country's Education Minister Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui told Reuters that an invitation was extended to Afghanistan "but no one from the Afghan government was at the conference.

Education activist Malala Yousafzai has returned to her homeland Pakistan for a summit on girls' education in the Islamic world. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate said she was "overwhelmed."

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.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai said she was "overwhelmed" to be back in her native Pakistan on Saturday, as the prime minister launched a global summit on girls' education