Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner, today arrived in her Swat Valley hometown in Pakistan for the first time after gap of 6 years. She was shot in the head by Taliban militants for advocating girls’ education rights more than five years ago.

Amid tight and heavy security, she along with her parents reached in Swat district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region on a day-long visit, sources said. She has stayed in Circuit House.

She will be visiting her ancestral home in Makan Bagh in Mingora, her school besides inaugurating a girls school in Shangla district, the sources added.

In an interview to Geo News yesterday, Malala said that she plans to return to Pakistan permanently once her studies are completed. "My plan is to return to Pakistan as this is my country. I have the same right on the country as any another Pakistani," Malala said.

She retold her happiness of being in Pakistan and her mission of providing education to children. "We want to work for the education of children and make it possible that every girl in Pakistan receives a high-level education and she can fulfil her dreams and become a part of society."

Malala, now 20, was shot by a gunman as she was campaigning for female education in 2012 in Pakistan's Swat Valley. Severely injured, Malala was taken by helicopter from one military hospital in Pakistan to another. Here doctors placed her in a medically induced coma to let her fly in air ambulance to Great Britain for treatment.