Nasir Bagh
Nasir Bagh ( Urdu : ناصر باغ) was a refugee camp for refugees from Afghanistan and was located about 15 km west of Peshawar on Nasir Bagh Road in the district of Peshawar in the northwestern border province of Pakistan .
It was built in 1980 because of the Afghan civil war and the Soviet invasion and covered an area of around 800 hectares , which could accommodate around 100,000 refugees.
The camp gained greater fame through the American photographer Steve McCurry and his portrait of the twelve-year-old Afghan refugee girl Sharbat Gula .
In 2001, the Pakistani government and UNHCR urged the remaining refugees to return to Afghanistan or to relocate to the Shamshatoo camp in the southeast of Peshawar district because the Regi Lalma community was to be built on the site . On May 21, 2002, it was closed by the UNHCR.
Web links
- Afghan refugees between the Cold War and the Anti-Terror War
- No Way Back for Nasir Bagh Refugees
- Nasir Bagh in Peshawar ( Memento from April 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
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- ↑ afghanistannewscenter.com July 2001: Islamabad gets tough on Afghan refugees
- ↑ UN News Center 21 May 2002: UNHCR announced today the closure of the 22-year-old Nasir Bagh camp in Pakistan
Coordinates: 34 ° 2 ′ N , 71 ° 25 ′ E