An estimated 40, 000 people have fled Mingora, according to Khushhal Khan, district coordination officer.
There was a burglary in our house while we were away in Mingora for 20 days.
Then last Tuesday, she was attacked as she returned home from school in Mingora, north-western Swat.
Businessman Muhammad Khan, 40, who recently returned to Mingora, voiced the despair of returning residents.
One man from Mingora said that he was having his first shave by a barber for a year.
The government provided an estimated 150 vehicles to evacuate people, as private cars are not allowed to enter Mingora.
Akhtar Ali, for example, was picked up from the street at around 4pm on September 1st at a checkpoint in Mingora.
Late on Tuesday, she was flown from Mingora, where the attack happened, to the city of Peshawar, 150km (95 miles) away, for surgery.
She and two other schoolgirls were attacked as they returned home from school in Mingora in the Swat Valley almost a week earlier.
The army also says that it has recaptured 70% of Swat's main city, Mingora, and expects to secure it in a matter of days.
Relief agencies have reported dire humanitarian conditions in Mingora: hospitals without electricity that are inundated with patients, an erratic supply of water and natural gas.
In the first incident, Mukarram Shah was killed in an explosion as he entered his car in the village of Banjot, said Abdullah Khan, police chief of the nearby city of Mingora.
They believed she would be safe among her own community, but on Tuesday, she was stopped as she returned home from school in Mingora, in north-western Swat, and shot in the head.
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But this week, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned that as many as 1 million people could remain displaced until December because of the widespread destruction in their home towns, such as Mingora.
The officials said there are reports of some civilian casualties in Wednesday's fighting -- which has been concentrated in Swat's district capital of Mingora -- but they denied local media reports that 35 civilians died.
When I was there, you did not have to search hard to see priceless ancient etchings in the rock of the valley, or find sites like Butkara, just outside Mingora, built as a Buddhist monastery.
Malala came to prominence when, as an 11-year-old, she wrote a diary for BBC Urdu, giving an account of how her school in Mingora town dealt with the Taliban's 2009 edict to close girls' schools.
He said that almost all the barbers have moved out of Mingora and that although he can work in freedom in the camp and earns 100 rupees a day there, he is longing to return home and work there.
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