![]() ![]() ![]() Yousafzai survived the attack and won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the world’s youngest Nobel laureate. Monday’s attack was also reminiscent of the 2012 Taliban attack on Malala Yousafzai, who was targeted, aged 15, for defying the militant group with her outspoken views on women’s right to education. Last month, a bombing claimed by the TTP killed eight people, including influential anti-Taliban leader Idrees Khan, in what was the first major bombing in the area in more than a decade. In recent weeks, there have been widespread reports of a return of militants to the valley. They banned female education and destroyed almost 200 girls’ schools. During this time, militants unleashed a reign of terror, killing and beheading politicians, singers, soldiers and opponents. Insurgents from the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) took partial control of Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in 2007, before being ousted two years later in a major military operation hailed as a telling blow against militant violence. PESHAWAR: Unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a school van in Swat’s Charbagh area in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing the driver and injuring one student, police said. ![]()
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