Sources said that she was provided tight security upon her arrival at the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi. They added that the Nobel laureate would visit flood affected areas during her visit. This is her second visit to her home country after the Taliban attacked her in October 2012. She had visited Pakistan in 2018 before general elections.

Floods driven by heavy rains have killed more than 1,700 people since mid-June from northern to southern Pakistan, shows the National Disaster Management Authority data. At least 2,114,546 houses have been damaged in floods, displacing around 33 million people in Pakistan.

The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on October 8 that expressed full solidarity with the flood-hit Pakistani people and urged the world community to scale up its humanitarian assistance to Pakistan.

UN chief Antonio Guterres described the people of Pakistan as “victims of a grim calculus” of climate injustice in his speech during the session. He reiterated that Pakistan was responsible for less than one per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, yet it was paying a “supersized price for man-made” climate change.

Malala had met with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly session and discussed the urgent needs of flood-hit people. “We are calling on the international community to ease debt pressure and provide immediate humanitarian support,” she had said in a series of tweets.

She had expressed shared her concern about the reappearance of the Taliban in Swat valley and other parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “Our people cannot face more terrorism & displacement — they need protection. The right to seek justice & live in peace belongs to everyone in Pakistan.”

The Nobel laureate had asked the PM to put more pressure on the Taliban to allow Afghan girls to go to school and women to go to work, lamenting that Afghanistan was the only country where girls were banned from secondary school. “Pakistan must stand for women’s rights and girls’ education.”