The Deutsche Press agency (www.dpa.de) has reported that Pakistan’s military have pushed Taliban militants out of the country’s former ski resort, Malam Jabba in the Swat Valley in the north-west of the country.

Deutsche Press reports that the resort was destroyed by loyalists of local cleric Maulana Fazlullah last year and subsequently used as a Taliban head quarters and training ground.

Pakistan reports that more than two million people have been displaced and more than 1,100 insurgents and over 60 troops killed in the current offensive by the Pakistan army aimed at re-capturing this part of the country from the Taliban.

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