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.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai on Sunday urged Muslim leaders to not "legitimize" the Afghan Taliban regime who has created a system of "gender apartheid." "Do not legitimize them (Taliban),

Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders to reject the Afghan Taliban's restrictions on women's education, calling it a crime. Speaking in Islamabad, she emphasized unified action against the Taliban's gender apartheid.

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.

Islamabad, The global conference on education for Muslim girls in Pakistan continues for its second day. Addressing the conference, Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai stated that the Taliban do not consider women as humans, emphasizing that Afghan Taliban have deprived female students of their right to education for over a decade.

Ms Yousafzai was shot in the face by the Taliban when she was a 15-year-old schoolgirl in 2012. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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.