Nasir Bagh

Nasir Bagh ( Urdu: ناصر باغ ) was a refugee camp for refugees from Afghanistan and lay about 15 km west of Peshawar at the Nasir Bagh Road in the district of Peshawar in North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.

It was built in 1980 because of the Afghan civil war and the Soviet invasion and covered an area of about 800 acres, could find space on the approximately 100,000 refugees.

Larger became famous for the camp by the American photographer Steve McCurry and his portrait of twelve -year-old Afghan refugee girl Sharbat Gula.

In 2001, the Pakistani government and the UNHCR urged the remaining refugees to return to Afghanistan or relocation to the camp Shamshatoo in the southeast of the district of Peshawar, because on the grounds the community Regi Lalma should arise. On 21 May 2002, it was closed by the UNHCR.