Malala Yousafzai before an event in New York last week. Photo: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban will be reunited with two friends who were injured in the same attack during a visit to Scotland.

Malala, 16, was shot in the head last October after her outspoken views on education and women’s rights brought her into conflict with the Taliban.

She is due to address the first public meeting of the Global Citizenship Commission, a body of world leaders representing politics, religious institutions, law and philanthropy, at Edinburgh University on Saturday.

The teenager will meet publicly with school friends Kainat Riaz and Shazia Ramzan during the event at the university’s McEwan Hall for the first time since the attack.

Malala is guest of honour at the meeting of the commission, a joint initiative between former prime minister Gordon Brown, New York University and Carnegie UK Trust.

It will discuss global developments since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was passed in 1948. Brown, UN special envoy for global education and MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, said: “We all know of Malala’s incredible courage, strength and determination, and I’m so pleased that she will be reunited with Shazia and Kainat, two young women equally determined that every girl and boy should enjoy the most basic of human rights – a secure, safe place at school.”

Malala is due to address the first public meeting of the Global Citizenship Commission on Saturday

The three teenagers will later join Brown at the topping-out ceremony of a new school in Burntisland, Fife.

“I’m delighted that the people of Fife will meet these three courageous girls at first hand and, as global campaigners for the right of every child to decent schooling, their attendance marks an exciting new chapter for Burntisland Primary School,” he said.