ISLAMABAD, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan's provincial government announced Saturday to reopen all the schools closed due to military operation in northwest areas from August 1.
Sardar Hussain, education minister of North West Frontier Province (NWFP), said all the educational institutes would be reopened in District Swat from August 1.
"We have made alternate arrangements for students enrolled at destroyed schools," the minister added.
He said the government will spend 8 billion rupees (about 100 million U.S. dollars) on the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the schools destroyed in terror activities in Swat and Malakand district in NWFP.
All government and private schools in these areas had been closed days before the launch of military operation in the districts.
The internally displaced persons (IDPs) began to return last week when the government announced the military operation in Swat and Malakand almost ended.
Over 2 million people fled their homes since Pakistani security forces launched the military operation against Taliban militants late April after militants in early April entered the Buner district from the neighboring Swat district and refused to vacate the area despite their pledge to do so.
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