By Saeed Shah

Fear mixed with joy as the first of two million internal refugees, created by Pakistan's fight against Islamic extremists, returned yesterday to the Swat Valley. Buses, trucks, vans and cars were loaded to the bursting point with possessions and people. Beds and sacks of flour, along with children and burka-clad women, perched precariously on the back of vehicles. However, just 647 families - around 4,500 individuals - returned on the first day of a mammoth program to reverse one of the biggest sudden movements of humanity in recent times.

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