BAJAUR, Jan 21: Around 200 more Afghan refugees were shifted from Jalozai and Shamshatoo refugee camps near Peshawar to two new camps set up in the Bajaur Agency, on Monday.

Some 20,000 Afghans from Jalozai, Shamshatoo and Katcha Garhi camps are already housed in the Kotaki and Chaharmang camps near Pakistan-Afghan border in the Bajaur Agency. With the arrival of the fresh batch of refugees, the process of relocation of refugees had been completed.

A UNHCR official said on Monday that some 20 per cent of the fresh refugees who had been moved to the two camps, had made conditions worse, as the camps could house only 20,000 people. After the arrival of new batch of refugees, the shifting of more refugees to the tribal agency had been stopped.

He said most of the inmates of the two camps had been brought here from the three refugee settlements located in the vicinity of Peshawar.

The world body had made arrangements for only 20,000 people in the two camps, he said, adding that the conditions would deteriorate if more refugees were settled there.

He said some 10,000 refugees living in different parts of the NWFP would also be shifted to the Bajaur Agency soon, however, he added that no decision had been taken in this regard so far.

The political agent of Bajaur Agency told Dawn that the UNHCR had decided to set up two more camps at the Mohmand area of the tribal agency in view of the better arrangements made by the local authorities for the security of the UNHCR staff.