Malala Yousafzai has visited her hometown of Mingora for the first time since a Taliban militant shot her there in 2012 for advocating girls’ education. Malala Yousafzai has visited her hometown of Mingora for the first time since a Taliban militant shot her there in 2012 for advocating girls’ education. Amid tight security, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and her parents landed in the Swat Valley in an army helicopter. Ms Yousafzai became the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. Yousafzai landed in Pakistan just before dawn on Thursday, flanked by heavy security and plans to return to Britain on Monday.

Source: Irish Independent March 31, 2018 05:38 UTC