Such safe havens could prove useful to them if political pressure mounts against them in Swat.
And the army shows little sign of wanting to resume the fighting in Swat.
It could not carry out the sort of operation there that it mounted in Swat and South Waziristan.
To handle this situation, Brig Mehmood Shah says the government is contemplating forming a permanent army garrison in Swat.
Police, some of them in SWAT gear, carried assault rifles on their shoulders, their fingers on the trigger guards.
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For thousands of years, these ruins had been preserved, co-existing in the past few centuries with Islam in Swat.
The Pakistani army has waged an offensive in Swat and South Waziristan.
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In Swat, officials have carefully planned the refugees' return, many observers say.
On 9 October, Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head as she travelled home from school in a bus in Swat, in north-eastern Pakistan.
Malala Yousafzai attracted public attention in 2009 when she published a blog telling of her life in Swat, in an area under Taleban control.
Since reaching his peace deal with the government in Islamabad, Muhammed has been appointing qazis, or clerics, to serve as judges in Islamic courts in Swat.
Pakistani forces have established a forceful presence in Swat, a Delaware-size region that many Pakistanis remember as a vacation spot filled with apple orchards and trout streams.
Given the deteriorating security situation in Swat and other adjoining areas, UNESCO and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Islamabad, mutually agreed to shift the project to the Punjab.
On October 9, Malala was on a school van in Swat Valley when Taliban gunmen stopped the vehicle and demanded that other girls tell them who was Malala.
Ms Yousafzai attracted public attention in 2009 when she published a blog describing her life in Swat when the Taleban gained control of much of the region in 2009.
The gathering continued for well over two hours, but not a single word was uttered about the new Sharia law which has become a source of hostilities in Swat valley.
The pattern of military failure followed by appeasement continued this year in Swat in northern Pakistan, whose verdant valleys and towering mountains had once been one of Pakistan's premier tourist destinations.
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Many of the destroyed schools in Swat remain closed.
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Pakistani officials thought that they had largely neutralized Mr. Fazlullah's threat until last fall, when some of his men crossed into Pakistan, stopped a school bus in Swat and shot Ms. Yousafzai in the head.
The officials said there are reports of some civilian casualties in Wednesday's fighting -- which has been concentrated in Swat's district capital of Mingora -- but they denied local media reports that 35 civilians died.
Initially UNESCO Islamabad is providing relief supplies of food and hygiene products to 500 women and their families who have been participating in an ongoing cultural handicrafts and livelihood project in Swat Valley (Khyber Pakhtoonkwa).
Curtis had gone to get his mail outside his home and was planning to go to his ex-wife's home to cook dinner for her and their children when he was approached by officers in SWAT gear, she wrote.
In terms of people coming across, one of the areas of progress has been not only the 140, 000 Pakistani troops working some of these safe havens in Swat and South Waziristan and elsewhere, but it is the fact that there is increasing cooperation on both sides of the border in coordinating their military operations.
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Schools in the Swat Valley closed on Wednesday in protest at the attack, and schoolchildren in other parts of the country prayed for the girl's recovery.
This comes as the Pakistani military beefed up its operations this week in the Swat Valley.
Malala was shot in the Swat Valley as she travelled home from school with two friends.
Malala, known as a campaigner for girls' education, was shot in the Swat Valley on 9 October.
The Pakistani military has been conducting a month-long offensive against the Taliban, centered in the Swat region of North West Frontier Province.
Malala was shot in the Swat Valley on 9 October as she travelled home from school with two classmates.
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