EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS MATERIAL THAT WAS ORIGINALLY 4:3<br/> <br />Expectations were high across Pakistan on Friday (October 11) that their teenaged heroine Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban for<br/> <br />campaigning for girl's education, would win this year's Nobel Peace Prize.<br/> <br />In Malala's hometown in the restive Swat valley, school children held special prayers for her to win the Nobel Peace Prize and become the youngest winner of the prestigious award.<br/> <br />Yousafzai started her campaigning by writing a blog in 2009 in which she described how the Taliban prevented girls like her from going to school. She has said being shot has only strengthened her resolve.<br/> <br />After receiving death threats from the Taliban for defying the Islamist militant group with her outspoken views on the right to education, Yousafzai was shot a year ago while on a school bus near her village in Swat in northwestern Pakistan.<br/> <br />Malala recovered after medical treatme
