ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said on Friday that the four camps set up on Balochistan's border to provide emergency shelter to refugees fleeing the 2001 war in Afghanistan were nearly empty and it had ended assistance there.
The agency said in a statement that more than 40,000 of the estimated 70,000 refugees in the Roghani, Landi Karez, Dara-1 and Dara-2 camps had left for Afghanistan since an enhanced repatriation package was offered in July for those choosing to go home. An estimated 15,000 people had moved into the camps established before 2001. -APP
