Hundreds of Pakistani refugees who spent weeks in relief camps began heading home to the battle-scarred Swat Valley today under a government repatriation programme. However, some refused to go back, saying they felt unsafe and needed promised aid, while the military tried to block thousands more returning without permission. The government had designated today as the first day some of the more than two million people displaced during an army campaign to rid the north-western valley of Taliban could return home.

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