Kacha Garhi camp in the North West Frontier Province was one of four camps UNHCR and Pakistan planned to close this year which Islamabad says have become havens for the Taliban, who are fighting an intensified insurgency in Afghanistan.
Millions of Afghan people either live in refugee camps or work illegally in neighbouring Pakistan and Iran.
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