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  "Bus, Man, Gun, Blood": Malala Yousafzai Reveals How Smoking Weed Brought Back Trauma Of Taliban Attack

  Malala Yousafzai, now 28 and known worldwide for championing girls' education, was only 15 when she was shot by a masked Taliban gunman while riding a school bus in Pakistan's Swat Valley.

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  Why Buddha Of Swat, Once Destroyed By Taliban, Is A Symbol Of Resilience

  The Buddha of Swat, carved on a cliff in the seventh century, was dynamited by the Pakistani Taliban in 2007. Now it has been restored, a powerful symbol of tolerance in the traumatised Pakistani valley.

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  ''Back With Eyes Open'': Malala Yousafzai Visits Pakistan District Where She Was Shot

  Malala Yousafzai visited the Swat valley Saturday for her first trip back to the once militant-infested Pakistani region where she was shot in the head by the Taliban more than five years ago.

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  "I Have Never Been So Happy": Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai In Pakistan

  Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai says she has pined for her home in Pakistan's picturesque Swat Valley, even as she recalled two years living in fear under the Taliban's harsh interpretation of Islamic law

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  Joy In Nobel Winner Malala Yousafzai's Hometown, Though Some Pakistanis Decry Her

  In the Pakistani hometown of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, reminders are frequent of the daughter of scenic northwestern Swat Valley who survived a gun attack and so are memories of harsh rule by the Taliban.

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  Taliban Phone Calls Demanding Cash Stir Fears Of A Comeback In Pakistan

  When Pakistani shopkeeper Abdur Rahim's phone rang in mid-October, he was shocked to hear the voice of a senior terrorist commander demanding protection money from him and his fellow traders in the Swat Valley.

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  Malala Yousafzai Becomes Millionaire With Book Sales, Lectures

  Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai and her family have become millionaires as a result of income from her memoir describing life under Taliban rule in Pakistan's picturesque Swat valley and appearances on the lecture circuit around the world.

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  Bomb in Toy Kills Father, 2 Children in Pakistan

  A father and two of his children were killed in northwest Pakistan today after a bomb concealed inside a toy went off inside their home.

• Militant Attacks Kill Five in North West Pakistan

  At least five people including three policemen were killed on Wednesday in two militant clashes near Pakistan's Swat Valley, officials said.

• Pakistan displaced families put faith in peace talks

  For Zarmata Bibi, a grandmother from Pakistan's volatile tribal areas, landmark peace talks between the government and the Taliban aimed at ending a seven-year insurgency couldn't come soon enough.

• Grenade attack on cinema kills four in northwest Pakistan: officials

  At least four people were killed and 31 wounded late on Sunday when unidentified attackers hurled two grenades at a cinema in northwest Pakistan, police and medics said.

• Malala Yousafzai's book banned by private schools in Pakistan: report

  A book by Malala Yousufzai has been banned by a federation of private schools in Pakistan, a British daily reported today.

• Full transcript: Twilight vampires have it easier than a girl in Swat, Malala Yousafzai speaks to NDTV

  NDTV is the first Indian network to interview Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teen who was shot by the Taliban, and has become an international icon of courage and an advocate of education for girls. She spoke in London to NDTV's Group Editor Barkha Dutt.

• Malala Yousafzai inspires school curriculum in US

  The 16-year-old Pakistani teen who was shot at by Taliban because she championed education for girls has inspired the development of a school curriculum encouraging advocacy.

• Malala Yousafzai reunited with Pakistan attack schoolfriends

  Campaigning Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai was reunited on Saturday with two friends who were injured in the Taliban attempt to kill her.