In a touching homage to her late grandmother, Pakistan’s youngest Nobel laureate, Malala Yousafzai, recalled her memorable childhood in the picturesque Shangla area of Malakand Division, her hometown.
Malala, a fervent supporter of girls’ education, made her first trip back to her Shangla town of Barkana on Wednesday in 13 years after escaping a militant assassination attempt.
“When I was a child, my family spent every holiday in a place called Shangla, a cluster of villages high in the Hindu Kush mountain range,” Malala wrote on her Instagram account.
She is returning to Shangla for the first time since escaping a shooting in 2012. In 2018, she made her most recent trip to Pakistan, although she was unable to visit her hometown at that time.
