'I've never been so excited. I'll return for good after Oxford'
Malala Yousafzai, the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, said she had never been as elated about anything as returning to her home town for the first time since a Taliban militant shot her there in 2012.
“I had never been so excited for anything. I’ve never been so happy before,” she said after arriving in Pakistan‘s Swat Valley, flanked by heavy security in a helicopter provided by the country’s military.
Ms Youzafzai, 20, who is studying at Oxford University, admitted she had pined for home, often looking at Pakistan on the map, and said she had been waiting and hoping for her return for more than five years.