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Pakistani and international aid officials say they have mapped out how the government would ensure the orderly -- and voluntary -- return of residents to the valley and surrounding areas, where police and local government are nearly nonexistent, schools and clinics are shuttered, and many houses were destroyed or damaged in the fighting.
WSJ: Pakistan Refugees Return to Swat
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While the authorities say they cannot guarantee the security of aid agencies in rebel areas, officials say supplies have been reaching a similar number of displaced people in government territory.
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Officials say the manned flight will take place during the daytime to aid the tracking of the capsule.
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Taliban officials were also expected to show journalists evidence Thursday which they say implicates other aid organizations in seeking to convert Muslims to Christianity.
CNN: Diplomats meet Taliban over aid workers' trial
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The Ministry of Justice recently carried out a consultation process and officials say no final decision has been made on the future of the legal aid programme.
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To its south, officials say, Europe has leveraged its domestic buying power, trade policy and aid to offer help to post-Arab Spring countries like Tunisia, Jordan and Egypt.
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Its proponents say that outside aid will help the government to clean up the army (already several senior officials have been sacked because of their links with paramilitaries).
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Using intelligence drawn in part from informants and a powerful wiretapping system, these officials say they have found an economic and political order underwritten by billions of dollars in aid, reconstruction and logistics funds from the West that is undermining the Afghan government from within and aiding a Taliban insurgency that is trying to topple it from without.
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Gen Abbas said he could not say which parts of the military would be worst hit until US officials told him what sections of aid were being cut.
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