Pakistan, March 6 -- Nobel Peace Prize laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai returned to her home village Barkana in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Shangla district on Wednesday, 13 years after surviving an assassination attempt by militants.

Yousafzai was a 15-year-old schoolgirl when Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants boarded a bus and shot her in the head in the remote Swat Valley near the Afghanistan border.

She has made rare visits to the valley since, but it was the first time she returned to her childhood home in Shangla since being evacuated to the United Kingdom after the attack.

"As a child, I spent every holiday in Shangla, Pakistan, playing by the river and sharing meals with my extended family," she said on X.

"I...