What were the immediate effects of this disaster?

One autumn, an earthquake devastated Swat. Homes, buildings, and schools were destroyed everywhere. The earthquake especially affected the small villages in the valley where Malala's extended family lived. Foreign aid came in, but some of it came from Islamic charities that were really a front for militant groups. Many of these groups insisted that the earthquake was a warning from God, and warned that if they did not convert to sharia (Islamic) law, more severe punishment would come.