KARACHI, Pakistan — Nobel Peace laureate
Malala Yousafzai on Wednesday met with victims
of Pakistan’s devastating monsoon floods, in only the second visit to her home
country since being shot by the Taliban a decade ago.
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Catastrophic
flooding this summer put one-third of Pakistan under water, displaced 8 million
people, and caused an estimated $28 billion in damage.
Authorities are
also battling a health crisis of malaria, dengue and malnutrition that has
broken out among flood victims living in thousands of makeshift camps across
the country.
Yousafzai
visited camps in rural Sindh province where she met with women who have fled
their submerged villages, describing them as “very brave”, according to a
statement released by the provincial chief minister’s office.
She also
expressed her concerns over the impact on education, with two million children
missing classes and 12,000 schools damaged.
Yousafzai was
just 15 years old when the Pakistani Taliban — an independent group that shares
a common ideology with the
Afghan Taliban — shot her in the head over her
campaign for girls education in the Swat Valley.
She was flown to
Britain for life-saving treatment and went on to become a global education
advocate and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize winner.
The militant
group, known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, waged a years-long insurgency
that ended with a major military crackdown in 2014.
But the group has
resurged in the region since the Taliban returned to power in Kabul last year,
with thousands of people protesting on Tuesday against the deterioration in
security.
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