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Army is keeping up its offensive against suspected Taliban positions in South Waziristan as a massive operation gets under way to return the first of around two million refugees to their homes in the Swat valley and surrounding areas. Jets on Sunday pounded several locations in the southwest, along the border with Afghanistan, as part of an ongoing military assault aimed at capturing Baitullah Mehsud, the head of the Pakistani Taliban. The continued offensive comes in the wake of the military declaring that it had expelled Taliban fighters from the northern regions of Buner, Swat and Lower Dir, paving the way for the return of some of the two million people displaced by the fighting. The refugees have spent the past months living with friends and relatives or in makeshift camps since the military began its offensive in the North West Frontier Province in late April.
