Security high in Pakistan's Swat but Malala visit uncertain

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(Press Information Department, via AP). In this photo released by the Press Information Department, Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, second from left, receives a souvenir from Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, center, Prime Minister of Pakistan... (Press Information Department, via AP). In this photo released by the Press Information Department, Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, second from left, receives a souvenir from Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, center, Prime Minister of Pakistan...
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(AP Photo/Naveed Ali). Pakistani students walk past the school of of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai in her hometown of Swat Valley in Pakistan, Thursday, March 29, 2018. Yousafzai on Thursday said she was excited to be back in Pakistan for t... (AP Photo/Naveed Ali). Pakistani students walk past the school of of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai in her hometown of Swat Valley in Pakistan, Thursday, March 29, 2018. Yousafzai on Thursday said she was excited to be back in Pakistan for t...

MINGORA, Pakistan (AP) - A Pakistani women's activist says Malala Yousafzai, who is back in Pakistan for the first time since the Taliban shot her in 2012, is hoping to visit her Swat Valley hometown but that the trip depends on security clearances from the government.

Security was visibly beefed up on Friday in Mingora, Yousafzai's hometown, but authorities wouldn't confirm whether the Nobel Peace Prize laureate would be arriving there.

Activist Adnan Tabassum, also from Swat, says she met with Yousafzai on Thursday in Islamabad and that Malala told her she wants to travel to Swat to see her former schools friends and relatives.

According to Tabassum, 20-year-old Malala has asked authorities to allow her to go to Shangla village in Swat, where a school has been built by the Malala Fund.

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