DHAKA: Campaigning Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai was reunited on Saturday with two friends who were injured in the Taliban attempt to kill her.

Kainat Riaz and Shazia Ramzan met Malala during an event at Edinburgh University in Scotland, the first time they have seen her since the attack.

A Taliban gunman boarded the girls’ school bus in Pakistan’s northwestern Swat Valley in October 2012 and opened fire at Malala to punish her for championing girls’ rights to education.

Malala, now 16, was shot in the head while Kainat and Shazia were both wounded in the crossfire, reports The Straits Times.

BDST: 2134 HRS, OCT 19, 2013
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