Malala Yousafzai, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, will go to a summit on girls' education to deliver on the importance of girls education.

After being shot by the Pakistan Taliban in 2012, who were furious with her campaigning, Yousafzai was evacuated from the country and has only made a few subsequent trips back.

It has been verified by a representative of the Malala Fund organization that Yousafzai will physically attend the conference. "I am thrilled to be joining Muslim leaders from all over the world for an important conference on girls' education," she wrote in a post on X on Friday.

I'll talk on Sunday about the need for leaders to hold the Taliban responsible for their crimes against Afghan women and girls, as well as the protection of all girls' rights to attend school.

The only nation in the world that forbids women and girls from attending college or university is Pakistan's neighbor, Afghanistan. The Taliban regime has enforced a strict interpretation of Islamic law since regaining power in 2021, which the UN has referred to as "gender apartheid."

Girls are only permitted to go to elementary school, and women are mostly limited to working in fields like education or health in segregated settings. Taliban officials assert that Islamic law "guarantees" Afghan women's and men's rights.

On Saturday and Sunday, the two-day summit, which will center on the education of girls in Muslim communities, will take place in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan.

It will be chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan and will include ministers and ambassadors from 44 nations, together with representatives from the World Bank and the United Nations.

According to a government announcement, the summit would reaffirm "the shared commitment of (the) Muslim community to empower girls through education".

After being attacked by Pakistani Taliban militants on a school bus in the isolated Swat valley close to the Afghan border in 2012, Yousafzai rose to fame.