Nasir Bagh
Nasir Bagh was an Afghan refugee camp located on the edge of Peshawar in what is now Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It opened in 1980 in what was then the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan following the outbreak of the Soviet-Afghan War and at one time had a population of 100,000 refugees.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jamrud.
Jamrud
Town
Photo: Shaw Afridi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jamrūd or Jam is a town in the Khyber District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Located in the Valley of Peshawar, on the western fringe of Peshawar city, Jamrud is the doorway to the Khyber Pass which is just to the west of the town. Jamrud is situated 6 km southwest of Nasir Bagh.
Nasir Bagh
- Type: Locality
- Description: human settlement in Pakistan
- Category: refugee camp
- Location: Peshawar District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to German—“Nasir Bagh” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “নাসির বাগ”
- Chinese: “納西爾巴格難民營”
- Chinese: “纳西尔巴格难民营”
- Dutch: “Nasir Bagh”
- German: “Nasir Bagh”
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