It has seen little of the Taliban insurgency which has gripped north-west Pakistan over the last few years.
The final group of people scheduled to return are those who have moved away from north-west Pakistan.
At least 19 people have been killed in a series of attacks in north-west Pakistan, officials say.
Malala was shot as she travelled home from school with two classmates in north-west Pakistan in October.
Two men were killed in the attacks by dozens of heavily-armed militants on checkpoints in north-west Pakistan.
Mr Holbrooke recently returned from a tour of the camps housing those displaced by the fighting in north-west Pakistan.
Two polio vaccination workers have been killed in a landmine blast in the Kurram tribal region of north-west Pakistan, officials say.
At least 10 paramilitary troops have been found shot dead in a volatile tribal area of north-west Pakistan, security officials say.
They are mostly Pashtuns, who predominate in southern Afghanistan and north-west Pakistan.
At least 17 people have been killed and more than 70 hurt in a car bomb attack on a market in the Khyber tribal area in north-west Pakistan, officials say.
Pakistan has in the past expressed concerns about the impact of such military offensives in southern Afghanistan on south-west Pakistan as militants seep over the border into the restive Baluchistan province.
The US has put pressure Pakistan to step up the fight against those militants in north-west Pakistan who launch attacks in Afghanistan, and in recent months has accused parts of Pakistan's security establishment of backing such insurgents.
Roshaneh Zafar is hoping that the business of clean water will give the women of Muzaffargarh in Punjab in south west Pakistan a source of income after all their possessions were wiped out in the floods earlier this year.
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Being a native of the north west of Pakistan, I visited Karakoram Mountains along with a French Professor.
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Zia ul-Haq, could count on uncritical support from the West because Pakistan was a vital cog in the Cold War.
Mortenson claims that he has educated over 60, 000 of young children and mostly girls and built over 170 schools in Karakoram -the north west of Pakistan and the Wakhan valley of Afghanistan near the Russia and China border during the last 17 years.
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The Victorian had been fighting for his place on tour following inconsistent performances against West Indies and Pakistan.
Bond is the most high-profile current international to have signed up, while retired greats Brian Lara of the West Indies and Pakistan's Inzamam-ul-Haq have also been recruited.
But Waugh was joined at the annual captains' conference by the skippers of the West Indies, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh and New Zealand national teams.
Sharjah hosted what should have been Pakistan's last home series, against West Indies, and the Pakistan team were in Tangiers for Morocco's debut on the international scene.
But a scheduling conflict with the West Indies tour to Pakistan prompted him to abandon his plans.
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We had a detailed exchange on the situation in our extended region, including East Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and West Asia.
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Sri Lanka, New Zealand, even Pakistan and the West Indies, did not appear good enough when they were first granted Test status.
The regions have been divided into England and the West Indies, Bangladesh and Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka, South Africa and Zimbabwe and Australia and New Zealand.
But they have also slowed considerably since their peak in 2010, and have come under harsher scrutiny both in Pakistan and the West, rendering the program's future in the region uncertain.
One of which was last September's Champions Trophy which was postponed for a year by the International Cricket Council while Pakistan played the West Indies at a neutral venue in the United Arab Emirates last November.
The troops have been fighting to oust militants from districts across Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.
Also interesting is the scene of Mr Libbi's capture, in Mardan (see map in article), in North West Frontier Province, close by Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.
Peshawar is the capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.
For example, on June 21st the military-appointed governor of Pakistan's North West Frontier ordered the province's cable television networks to be shut at the behest of Islamic clerics, who said they promoted obscenity.
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