Out of view of tourists and the media, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai is building a girls school in Pakistan, in a hill town not far from where she was shot in 2012 by the Taliban for going to school.

The school being built will occupy land in picturesque surroundings in northwest Pakistan.

Though one might expect the school to be named after Malala, it will apparently be called Kapal Kor Girls School.

Kapal Kor, which means "my home" in Pushto, is the name of an NGO in the Swat river valley granted money by the Malala Fund.

The foundation has received donations from such luminaries as the actress Angelina Jolie and from the Hillary Clinton Foundation.

People in Swat often refer to Malala as "our little girl" who has made her way to the halls of the United Nations and the U.S. Congress.

At the age of 15, Malala was shot in the head at point blank range by a Taliban gunman while returning from "Khushal School and College" in Mingora, the main city in Swat. The school is one of a chain of schools in the region run by Malala's family.

Malala was targeted for defying a Taliban ban on educating girls, and for writing a diary for the BBC about Taliban rule in Swat.

The school had 800 children in 2012 when Malala was attacked, and has just half that number now.

"It is the fear that the school might be attacked again by Taliban," said Mohammad Farooq, its current principal.

As many as 400 schools in Swat and nearby tribal areas have been destroyed by the Taliban.

Swat is the birthplace of the Pakistan Taliban, and from where thousands flocked to fight in Afghanistan after the United States sent troops there following the September 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.

Though the Pakistan army claims that Swat has now been cleansed of the Taliban, local residents fear their return.

The current head of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Mullah Fazlullah, hails from Swat, and army check points still dot the bumpy road from Mingora to the town where the Malala-funded school is under construction.

Malala, who in 2014 became the youngest person ever awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, has said providing money to the NGO to construct a school in Swat was the happiest moment of her life. But it is not clear if Malala will return to Swat for its inauguration.

Swat was a princely state ruled by a Nawab until merging with Pakistan in 1972. Malala's homecoming for the school inauguration would mark the return of a person viewed by many Pakistanis as a princess to the former princely state.