Malalas peace prize seen as slap at Taliban

October 10, 2014 20:38

On Friday -- just after the second anniversary of the gunshots by Taliban militants that changed her life -- word raced through Mingora: The 17-year-old Yousafzai was a co-winner of the prize for her global advocacy for education for women and girls.

But there is still the shadow of the Pakistani Taliban and its backers in the Swat Valley, a region of stunning beauty and bloody ideological struggles in the tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan.

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