Education activist Malala returns to a region in crisis

"For her, it is a homecoming to a region that shaped who she is today, but also a reminder of the work still left unfinished," Yousafzai's friend and fellow rights activist Nighat Dad told AFP. Millions more families are living in poverty while more than a third of children are still out of school, as the cash-strapped state grapples with cycles of political chaos and resurging militancy. In neighbouring Afghanistan, the Taliban have returned to power and imposed an austere interpretation of Islamic...