Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders on Sunday not to "legitimise" the Afghan Taliban government and to "show true leadership" by opposing their curbs on women and girls' education.

Pakistan’s decision to host a high-profile event focused on empowering Muslim girls through education has been interpreted by geopolitical experts as a direct snub to the Taliban regime. While many on the internet support the move,

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."

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai on Saturday joined a global summit on the education of Muslim girls that was snubbed by Afghanistan's Taliban government.Yousafzai was evacuated to the United Kingdom after her attack and went on to become a global advocate for girls' education and,

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders Sunday not to "legitimize" the Afghan Taliban government and to "show true leadership" by opposing their curbs on women and girls' education.

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 in the Islamic world.

Muhammad al-Issa, a Saudi cleric and secretary general of the Muslim World League - which has backed the summit - said religion was no grounds for blocking girls from school. "The entire Muslim world has agreed that girls education is important, and those who say that girls education is un-Islamic are wrong," he said.

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.

The summit is also being attended by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Pakistan Taliban militants in 2012.

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.