Mingora (Pakistan) | 31 March 2018:
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai visited her hometown in Pakistan where she was shot on head six years ago by Pakistani Taliban militant group for advocating education of girls in the region.
She landed in an army helicopter with parents on Saturday in Mingora, a town in Swat Valley in north-west Pakistan, for the first time after 2012.
Pakistani broadcaster Geo TV reports the Nobel laureate addressed students at the cadet school and visited a local park. She said, "Swat is a piece of heaven."
The 20-year-old was not earlier scheduled to visit her hometown when she landed in capital city Islamabad and met Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Thursday. However, the beefed up security in Swat Valley signaled she would come to meet friends, family and relatives too in her Pakistan visit, first time after she was airlifted for treatment after the attack.
Presently Malala is living in Britain and is a student at Oxford University. She will be returning back on Monday.
Malala won Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 and became the youngest person ever to do so. Recollecting the days when she was announced for the prize the most widely known Pakistani said, "My teacher came into my classroom and called me outside... I was worried that I might have done something wrong and I am in trouble. But she told me that I had won the peace prize. I said thank you."
Until 2009 the Pakistani Taliban militant group ruled Swat Valley for about two years with an iron fist. Malala was then in her early school years when the hardline Islamist group banned education for girls in the region and destroyed hundreds of girls' schools.
Without fear Malala continued her activism and blogged for BBC Urdu advocating girls' education. She was shot for the reason and her attempted murder sparked a wave of revulsion across the nation and abroad. Her voice was not silenced and she became a global icon for girls' education.
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Source 1: Malala Yousafzai visits hometown for first time since Taliban shooting
Source 2: Malala returns to Pakistan home town for first time since attack
Author Twinkle Brar
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai visited her hometown in Pakistan where she was shot on head six years ago by Pakistani Taliban militant group for advocating education of girls in the region.
She landed in an army helicopter with parents on Saturday in Mingora, a town in Swat Valley in north-west Pakistan, for the first time after 2012.
Pakistani broadcaster Geo TV reports the Nobel laureate addressed students at the cadet school and visited a local park. She said, "Swat is a piece of heaven."
The 20-year-old was not earlier scheduled to visit her hometown when she landed in capital city Islamabad and met Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Thursday. However, the beefed up security in Swat Valley signaled she would come to meet friends, family and relatives too in her Pakistan visit, first time after she was airlifted for treatment after the attack.
Presently Malala is living in Britain and is a student at Oxford University. She will be returning back on Monday.
Malala won Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 and became the youngest person ever to do so. Recollecting the days when she was announced for the prize the most widely known Pakistani said, "My teacher came into my classroom and called me outside... I was worried that I might have done something wrong and I am in trouble. But she told me that I had won the peace prize. I said thank you."
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Until 2009 the Pakistani Taliban militant group ruled Swat Valley for about two years with an iron fist. Malala was then in her early school years when the hardline Islamist group banned education for girls in the region and destroyed hundreds of girls' schools.
Without fear Malala continued her activism and blogged for BBC Urdu advocating girls' education. She was shot for the reason and her attempted murder sparked a wave of revulsion across the nation and abroad. Her voice was not silenced and she became a global icon for girls' education.
References
Source 1: Malala Yousafzai visits hometown for first time since Taliban shooting
Source 2: Malala returns to Pakistan home town for first time since attack
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- Nobel Peace Prize winner and Pakistani activist for girls' education, Malala Yousafzai returned to her native place early Thursday in her first visit since 2012 when angered Taliban militants shot her and injured gravely for advocating greater education of girls. [know more]
Author Twinkle Brar
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