Mingora

One year after a Taliban bullet tried to silence Malala Yousufzai's demand for girls' education, she has published a book and is a contender for the Nobel Peace Prize. But the militants threaten to kill her should she dare return home to Pakistan, and the principal at her old school says that as Malala's fame has grown, so has fear in her classroom...

As Pakistan marked "Malala Day" Saturday on a global day of support for the teenager shot by the Taliban for promoting girls' education, security fears in her hometown meant her schoolmates could not honour her in public.

The Pakistan military leadership has said that all the militant strongholds have been destroyed in the Swat and Mingora regions.

Residents of the Swat Valley's main town on Sunday rushed to mostly empty markets in search of food.

Moving from street to street, Pakistani troops have wrested several key areas in the Swat valley's main town Mingora from Taliban.

Pakistani military on Thursday surrounded the Swat valley capital Mingora where around 5,000 armed Taliban fighters were dug in.

Over 50 per cent of the total three lakh residents of Mingora, the main city in Pakistan's restive Swat valley, have left their homes.

One year after a Taliban bullet tried to silence Malala Yousufzai's demand for girls' education, she has published a book and is a contender for the Nobel Peace Prize. But the militants threaten to kill her should she dare return home to Pakistan, and the principal at her old school says that as Malala's fame has grown, so has fear in her classroom...

As Pakistan marked "Malala Day" Saturday on a global day of support for the teenager shot by the Taliban for promoting girls' education, security fears in her hometown meant her schoolmates could not honour her in public.

The Pakistan military leadership has said that all the militant strongholds have been destroyed in the Swat and Mingora regions.

Residents of the Swat Valley's main town on Sunday rushed to mostly empty markets in search of food.

Moving from street to street, Pakistani troops have wrested several key areas in the Swat valley's main town Mingora from Taliban.

Pakistani military on Thursday surrounded the Swat valley capital Mingora where around 5,000 armed Taliban fighters were dug in.

Over 50 per cent of the total three lakh residents of Mingora, the main city in Pakistan's restive Swat valley, have left their homes.