The United Nations Office in Pakistan says that more than two-thirds of the people displaced by fighting between government forces and Taliban fighters in northwestern Pakistan have returned home.

Over two-and-a-half million people were registered as internally displaced persons at the height of the conflict this year.

United Nations agencies in Pakistan are providing assistance to the people returning home.

The World Food Programme, for example, has reached more than two million people and is due to open a total of 35 hubs in the areas of return this week.

On the education front, the UN Children's Fund has identified the repair and rehabilitation of more than 3,000 primary schools in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan.

The damaged schools housed displaced families hosted by local communities in the province.

More than 1,000 schools have been rehabilitated to date and work is underway in over 900 schools.