Nasir Bagh

Nasir Bagh (Pashto: ناصر باغ) is an Afghan refugee camp on the edge of Peshawar in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (known in Afghanistan as "شمال مغربی سرحدی صوبہ Śhumāl Maġribī Sarhadī Sūbha" province of Pakistan. The one-time emergency settlement, that turned into a thriving community of more than 100,000 people, is now largely empty - many of its former residents part of the wave of around half a million people who have returned to Afghanistan in recent years.

See also

• Muhajir Afghan
• Sharbat Gula

External links

• No Way Back for Nasir Bagh Refugees
• Nasir Bagh in Peshawar

Coordinates: 34°02′N 71°25′E / 34.033°N 71.417°E / 34.033; 71.417