The winner of the Prize Nobel of Peace Malala Yousafzai says he missed his home in the picturesque valley of Swat , in Pakistan , despite two years reminding fear under the harsh interpretation of Islamic law Taliban.
In the first visit to her home since a Taliban gunman shot her in the head for her blog in which she advocated the education of girls, Yousafzai, 20, also generates controversy with detractors who accuse her of promoting a confronting ideology with the Islamic values of the country.
"I am proud of my religion, and I am proud of my country," he told Reuters in an interview at his hotel on Friday.
I miss everything in Pakistan ... from the rivers and mountains to even the dirty streets and garbage around our house, and my friends "
Wearing a scarf with roses, a tunic and pants - one of the many outfits that family and friends brought her from Pakistan to the United Kingdom, where she studies at the University of Oxford - Yousafzai said she was excited to be home. "I've never been so excited about anything. I've never been so happy, "he said.
On Saturday Yousafzai flew by helicopter to visit his childhood home in the Swat Valley under strong security measures.
"I miss everything in Pakistan ... from the rivers and mountains to even the dirty streets and trash around our house, and my friends and how we used to chat about our life at school or how we used to fight with our neighbors" , He said.
He wanted to go back before, but in addition to security issues, there was a rapid pace in school and his entrance exams to Oxford, where he began studying a degree in politics, philosophy and economics last year.
Symbol of girls education
Yousafzai's trip to become the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize began when the local branch of the Taliban took control of his village in Swat, about 250 km from the capital, Islamabad, in 2007, when I was 9 years old.
The Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) group banned television, music and girls' education, and burned some 200 schools, following the example of the Taliban government of the 1990s in neighboring Afghanistan, which excluded women from almost any aspect of public life.
"I still remember every moment, fear, when I sleep at night, that you may not be alive the next day," Yousafzai said. "The fear that if you go to school, someone can stop you and put acid on your face," he said.
His father was a teacher at a school that educated girls and managed to stay open until the beginning of 2009.
After the Pakistani army expelled the Taliban in mid-2009, it became a symbol of girls' education with a blog that was written for the BBC's Urdu service, which began when the Taliban were still in power, and a documentary about his figure.
That made her a target. In 2012, a masked gunman boarded his school bus, separated it and fired it. The Taliban later said that they had carried out the attack because of their promotion of liberalism.
She was taken to the United Kingdom to be operated and has remained outside of her country since then, writing the bestseller "I am Malala" and creating a foundation for the education of girls around the world.
In 2014 he received the Nobel Peace Prize, along with an Indian activist.