Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai arrived today in Pakistan, her home country, to visit the communities affected by the recent floods that devastated entire rural areas, exactly ten years after the attack which she survived and which killed the then 15- Religious extremism made year-olds a symbol of resistance.
In fact, it was October 9, 2012 when members of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan group, the Pakistani Taliban, broke into the vehicle in which then 15-year-old Malala was driving back from school and hit her with a bullet in the head : your ‘blame’ campaign for girls’ education. Malala was taken to the UK where she was operated on and rescued.
In 2014 she received the Nobel Peace Prize, the youngest recipient in history. Malala, who now lives in the UK, returned to Pakistan in 2018.
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