&quot;I am excited that today I have achieved my dream of going back to school,&quot; she said after her first day of classes at Edgbaston High School for Girls in Birmingham. &quot;I want all girls in the world to have this basic opportunity. I miss my classmates from Pakistan very much but I am looking forward to meeting my teachers and making new friends here in Birmingham,&quot; she added. Malala has joined the girls in Year 9 and will be studying a full curriculum in preparation for selecting her subjects for GCSEs, the school said in a statement. It also asked the media to &quot;allow her to attend school without intrusion and to respect the privacy of other pupils and parents&quot;.u00a0 <img alt="" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/mar/Malala-500_1.jpg" style="width: 483px; height: 377px;" /> Malala Yousafzai. File Pic Malala was returning home from school in Pakistan&#39;s north-western Swat district on October 9 last year when gunmen stopped her bus and shot her in the head and the chest. The bullet entered just above her left eye, running along her jaw and &quot;grazing&quot; her brain. Surgeons in Pakistan removed the bullet before she was air-lifted to the UK for life-saving treatment at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. The Taliban had said it shot Malala for &quot;promoting secularism&quot;, sparking international outrage. She is set to secure permanent residence in the UK after her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, was given a job with the Pakistani consulate in Birmingham for the next three years. Speaking in a recorded video message for the first time since the attack, Malala had announced a fund to be used to help provide education for all young people. She was also nominated for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month. &quot;She is a candidate who embodies several causes: the rights of girls and women, education, youth, and the fight against extremism,&quot; said prize observer Kristian Berg Harpviken, the head of the Peace Research Institute of Oslo.u00a0

Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls' education in her country, today defied her attackers by returning to a school in Britain where she underwent several surgeries.

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