Malala visits Pak hometown in Swat Valley

Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner, today arrived in her Swat Valley hometown in Pakistan for the first time after she was shot in the head by Taliban militants for advocating girls education more than five years ago.

Amid tight security, she along with her parents arrived in Swat district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on a day-long visit, sources said.

She has been put up in Circuit House. The venue had been surrounded by the law enforcers.

She will be visiting her ancestral home in Makan Bagh in Mingora, her school besides inaugurating a girls school in Shangla district, the sources added.

In an interview to Geo News yesterday, Malala said that she plans to return to Pakistan permanently once her studies are completed.

"My plan is to return to Pakistan as this is my country. I have the same right on the country as any another Pakistani, Malala said.

She reiterated her joy of being in Pakistan and her mission of providing education to children.

"We want to work for the education of children and make it possible that every girl in Pakistan receives a high-level education and she can fulfill her dreams and become a part of society."