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| 2018-04-01 |
| [Rooters] Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai visited her birthplace in Pakistan’s Swat Valley on Saturday, bursting into tears as she entered her childhood home for the first time since a Taliban gunman shot her in 2012. The 20-year-old told a family friend she planned to return home after completing her education at Oxford, where she is reading for a degree in politics, philosophy and economics. Roads were blocked off in the town of Mingora as Yousafzai, known universally by her first name, flew in by military helicopter with her parents and brother. Security was tight around her former home, now rented by a family friend, Farid-ul-Haq Haqqani, who has kept the young woman’s room intact with her books, school trophies and luggage. “I asked her when are you permanently coming back and she said ‘God willing, when my education is completed, I will God willing come back to Pakistan.’” He added that Malala chatted in her room with four friends from her school days in Swat, while her parents greeted neighbors who dropped by - since the security detail would not allow her to go to other houses or even up on the roof of her home. Malala has been visiting Pakistan since Thursday, her first trip home since she was shot and airlifted abroad for treatment. The government and military have been providing security. This month, a new girls’ school built with her Nobel prize money opened in the village of Shangla in Swat Valley. |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #2 You cannot rationally convince jihadis to change their ways. She needs to leave and stay away from the hive. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2018-04-01 13:12 |
| #1 Personally I think she should never have gone back. Time will tell. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-04-01 00:46 |