NOWSHERA, Aug 12: Police and Frontier Constabulary with armoured personnel carriers were deployed around the Jalozai refugee camp on Sunday to ensure that its directive to the Afghans living there to vacate the camp by the end of the current month is implemented.

Officials said 10 platoons of the FC and 15 of police had arrived at the camp housing over 120,000 Afghans.

District Police Officer Qazi Mohammad Jamil informed journalists that the security forces had set up a control room in the camp and the UNHCR and the Afghan Commissionerate would assist them in the evacuation of the camp.

The government has announced that the camp will be closed by the end of August. The refugees have been given the option to go back to their country under the voluntary repatriation programme sponsored by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees or relocate to Dir and Chitral districts.