Malala Yousafzai has described how "a dream came true" as she made a tearful return to her hometown for the first time since she was shot there by the Taliban as a teenager. Miss Yousafzai, who became the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize winner for her campaign for girl's education, flew into Mingora, her home town in the Swat Valley, on a Pakistani Army helicopter on Saturday. Malala Yousafzai arrives by helicopter to the all-boys Swat Cadet College Guli Bagh, during her hometown visit Credit: ABDUL MAJEED/ AFP But while her return amid heavy security has been welcomed by most in Pakistan, it has been greeted by cynicism and hostility by still influential conservatives who view her as an advocate of alien western values. Mingora is where Malala's family was living and where she was attending school on October 9, 2012, when a gunman boarded her school bus, asked "who is Malala?", and shot her in the face. During an emotional reunion with friends and family