Left Swat with my eyes closed, back with my eyes open: Malala March 31, 2018 | By Web Desk | Pakistan Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai visited Mingora her hometown in Swat Valley on Saturday for the first time since she was shot by the Taliban as a teenager. Mingora is where Malala’s family was living and where she was attending school on October 9, 2012, when a gunman boarded her school bus, asked "Who is Malala?", and shot her. Malala was accompanied by State Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb, her family and others as she travelled by an army helicopter from Islamabad to Swat. After arriving in Swat, Malala met with friends and family before visiting the all-boys Swat Cadet College Guli Bagh, some 15 kilometres (nine miles) outside of Mingora, the district’s main town. “My first visit to Swat valley after 5 and a half years since the attack. I have never felt so happy. I am proud of my land and culture. The Cadet Coll
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