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Jalozai

Jalozai (Pashto: جلوزی), also Jallozai, Jailozai, and Jelazee, is a village located in Nowshera District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan. Jalozai is famous for an Afghan refugee camp which is located about 35 kilometres southeast of Peshawar near the Afghanistan–Pakistan border.[1][2]

Jalozai
Jalozai
Jalozai
Coordinates: 33°55′N 71°49′E / 33.917°N 71.817°E / 33.917; 71.817
CountryPakistan
ProvinceKhyber-Pakhtunkhwa
DistrictNowshera District
Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)

Overview edit

Jalozai is located in Pabbi Tehsil of Nowshera District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan.[citation needed] The most notable attraction of Jalozai are the University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar campus, which was constructed at the cost of Rs.5.56 Billion on a 400-acre land, and the Jalozai Refugee Camp.[citation needed]

Jalozai Refugee Camp edit

It was one of the largest of 150 refugee or transit camps in Pakistan, holding Afghan refugees from the 1980s Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.[citation needed] It had an estimated 70,000 refugees at its peak. New Jalozai adjoined the original Jalozai camp in November 2000, taking in a new wave of arriving Afghan refugees. The camps briefly received an additional influx of refugees in the period after 9/11, leading up to the United States invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001. After the fall of the Taliban, the vast majority of refugees in the Jalozai camp returned home or were relocated elsewhere.[citation needed] In February 2002, with a remaining population of 800, Jalozai camp was formally closed. But some problem elements remained through at least 2003, necessitating Pakistani military raids on the former camp that year. By 2012 Pakistan banned extensions to all foreign visas and continued its effort to close the remaining refugee camps.[3]

American intelligence analysts alleged, during the Administrative Review Board hearing of Guantanamo detainee Adel Hassan Hamad, that the camp was directed by Zahid Al-Sheikh, an older brother of senior al Qaeda planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.[2] American analysts allege that Zahid Al-Sheikh was also an extremist with ties to terrorism.[citation needed]

Hamad acknowledged that when he first started working for the Hira Islamic Institute Al-Sheikh was the director of Lajnat Al-Da'wa al Islamia, and his ultimate boss, but he was never the director of the Jelazee Refugee Camp.[2] He said that while his relationship with him was a distant business relationship he never saw any clue that Al-Sheikh was an extremist, or tied to terrorism.

Médecins Sans Frontières reported that the camp was closed in early 2002. It called the camp "infamous", and recounted that it had been known as "a living cemetery".[4]

In a report in the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, published in late December 2001, an Afghan refugee named Haji Dost Mohammad, who was then in charge of the camp's security, reported that Osama bin Laden had made a food delivery to the camp in the late 1980s.[5]

“He may have lived in Peshawar, but I never had close contacts with him. Once he came to the camp, 14 years ago, to deliver dates. He came only once. I haven’t seen him since, and at the time I didn’t know who he was.”

1979 Soviet invasion edit

After 1979, Peshawar served as a political centre for anti-Soviet Mujahideen, and became surrounded by huge camps of Afghan refugees. Many of the Afghan refugees fled through the historic Khyber Pass, near Peshawar. That major border city of a million people then replaced Kabul and Kandahar as the centre of ethnic Pashtuns (Pakhtuns) cultural development during the 1980s.[citation needed]

Osama bin Laden was identified as a visitor to the Jalozai camp in the 1980s on one occasion. Bin Laden had been based around Peshawar since 1981, where he and Dr. Abdullah Yusuf Azzam were running a large contingent of foreign Arabs and material support involved in the Afghan resistance. Haji Dost Mohammad, the Jalozai security chief, and also a resident of Peshawar since 1979, recalled in a Reuters interview in 2001 that Osama bin Laden had visited Jalozai camp in 1987. According to Mr. Mohammad, "Once he came to the camp, 14 years ago, to deliver dates. He came only once. I haven't seen him since, and at the time I didn't know who he was."[6]

After the Soviet defeat in 1989, many of the Afghan refugees remained in Jalozai and in other Pakistan camps throughout the subsequent civil war and ensuing Afghan rule by the Taliban.[citation needed]

November 2000 New Jalozai edit

In October 2000, the USS Cole bombing by al-Qaeda brought many relief agencies to Pakistan, in anticipation of a new exodus of Afghan refugees. The expected retaliation from the United States government then came. Though it was limited to cruise missiles fired into al-Qaeda training camps in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, the expected wave of new refugees also followed.[citation needed]

The old Jalozai camp continued to contain thousands of refugees from the 1980s and 1990s conflicts. But in November 2000, the "New Jalozai" camp was also established, next to the existing old Jalozai camp. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) began working in New Jalozai in November 2000. Since that time, an additional 50,000 refugees arrived in the Peshawar area, and had settled in the New Jalozai refugee camp through the nine months ending in July 2001.[7]

At the start of 2001, there were nearly 150 refugee camps in Pakistan with some 1.1 million Afghan residents in the camps. Just over 3 million Afghans lived in Pakistan overall, including the camps.[8]

By late 2001, the combined Jalozai refugee camps were estimated by Reuters to have been home to 300,000 Afghans in total during various times over more than two decades. Most sources put the camp population at 70,000 refugees at its peak.[citation needed]

But through July 2001, the combined Jalozai camp was still merely a makeshift transit point. It did not have formal UN status as a refugee camp. No registration had ever taken place in the camp, so substandard living conditions prevailed for the tens of thousands of refugees at Jalozai.[citation needed]

In mid-2001, before the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, 10,000 of the Afghans in the Jalozai camp were recognized and registered as genuine refugees by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and transferred to the new Shamshatoo refugee camp outside the city of Peshawar according to UNHCR spokesperson Melita Sunjic.[citation needed]

2002 camp closures and returnees edit

By early 2002, 50,000 had been relocated from Jalozai camp. Many of those had returned home to Afghanistan following the removal of the Taliban from power in late 2001.[citation needed]

Most of the other former residents of the Jalozai camp had relocated to six new camps built in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa since September 11, 2001, including Kotkai, Bajaur, Shalman, Old Bagzai, Basu, and Ashgaru.[citation needed]

On February 11, 2002, the UNHCR said that the Jalozai refugee camp would be closed the next day, on February 12, 2002. Then a statement by the United Nations refugee agency said that UNHCR deputy representative to Pakistan Eva Demant and commissioner for Afghan refugees would officially close the site.[9]

As of February 11, 2002, the roughly 800 refugees remaining in Jalozai were scheduled to be transferred to Barkili close to the Afghan border on the following day.[citation needed]

In March 2002, the UN refugee agency began a voluntary repatriation campaign in Pakistan. By the end of 2002, UNHCR had repatriated 1.53 million Afghan refugees from Pakistan, including 1.4 million from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. 82% were from urban areas; only 3% were from new camps, which had been created in anticipation of the October 2001 US coalition invasion.[10]

UNHCR emphasis in 2003 was on repatriation from old camps and cities in Pakistan to rural areas in Afghanistan. 70% of returnees from Pakistan were from cities and 30% from camps.[citation needed]

On March 9, 2003, Pakistani security forces carried out raids in Jalozai refugee camp near Peshawar. The forces also raided nearby Shamshatoo camp. No one was detained.[citation needed]

2004 returnees were 385,000 from Pakistan.[citation needed]

2005 UNHCR plans called for 400,000 Afghan refugees to return home from Pakistan. As of early April 2005, 11,000 Afghans had returned home. 7,000 returned from Pakistan since assisted returns resumed in March. Returns were climbing closer to 500 a day from 250 in March. Numbers were expected to swell as the weather warmed into the summer. UNHCR was then planning, with Pakistan, for perhaps 1.5 million refugees who would stay after termination of the tripartite refugee return agreement in March 2006.[citation needed]

In 2005, with more Afghans drawn home by improving conditions, all the "new" camps in Pakistan established to shelter Afghans anticipated to be fleeing the 2001 war in Afghanistan had been closed. More than 580,000 Afghans had gone home from the camps since the UN's voluntary repatriation programme began in 2002.[citation needed]

As of 2005, camp closures continued in parallel with the UNHCR repatriation operation that began in March 2002 and helped 2.4 million Afghan refugees from Pakistan to go home, the agency's largest such programme anywhere in the world.[citation needed]

The region was rocked severely by the catastrophic 2005 Kashmir earthquake.

In 2012 Pakistan continued its effort to close the remaining refugee camps in the country and banned extensions of all foreign visas, including Afghanistan, leading to a mass number of returnees.[11][12]

Jalozai Special Economic Zone edit

In July 2020, KP Chief Minister Mehmood Khan officially launched the Jalozai Special Economic Zone in the Nowshera District.[13]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Jailozai / Jallozai / Jalozai, Pakistan, Earth (Geody)
  2. ^ a b c Summarized transcript (.pdf), from Adel Hassan Hamad's Administrative Review Board hearing - page 248
  3. ^ . Archived from the original on 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
  4. ^ . Médecins Sans Frontières. February 20, 2002. Archived from the original on February 10, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-05.
  5. ^ "PESHAWAR: On Osama's trail in Peshawar". Dawn. December 31, 2001. Retrieved 2008-05-04. "At that time all these Arabs came to the mosque," he said. "I don't remember if Osama was here or not." One who remembers him well is Haji Dost Mohammad, an Afghan living here for 22 years, who runs security at the Jalozai refugee camp.
  6. ^ Quote from Haji Dost Mohammad, who runs security at Jalozai, to Reuters in Peshawar on December 29, 2001.
  7. ^ Afghan Refugees in Jalozai Camp (Peshwawar, Pakistan), a photo documentary/July 2001, Doctors Without Borders
  8. ^ UN consolidates Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan 2006-08-13 at the Wayback Machine, One World South Asia
  9. ^ Pakistan's Jalozai Refugee Camp to Be Closed, People's Daily, (Beijing Time) Tuesday, February 12, 2002
  10. ^ Humanitarian Assistance for Afghan Refugees and IDPs 2006-06-24 at the Wayback Machine, Center of Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, April 22, 2005
  11. ^ . Archived from the original on 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
  12. ^ "No more visa extensions for foreigners in Pakistan | Pakistan Today".
  13. ^ Buneri, Aziz (2020-10-05). "Once a squalid refugee camp, Jalozai to become a real estate development". Profit by Pakistan Today. Retrieved 2020-10-11.

External links edit

  • UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency (Afghanistan)
  • In pictures: The Afghans who do not want to go to their homeland

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Jalozai Pashto جلوزی also Jallozai Jailozai and Jelazee is a village located in Nowshera District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan Jalozai is famous for an Afghan refugee camp which is located about 35 kilometres southeast of Peshawar near the Afghanistan Pakistan border 1 2 JalozaiJalozaiShow map of Khyber PakhtunkhwaJalozaiShow map of PakistanCoordinates 33 55 N 71 49 E 33 917 N 71 817 E 33 917 71 817CountryPakistanProvinceKhyber PakhtunkhwaDistrictNowshera DistrictTime zoneUTC 5 PST Contents 1 Overview 2 Jalozai Refugee Camp 3 1979 Soviet invasion 3 1 November 2000 New Jalozai 3 2 2002 camp closures and returnees 4 Jalozai Special Economic Zone 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksOverview editJalozai is located in Pabbi Tehsil of Nowshera District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan citation needed The most notable attraction of Jalozai are the University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar campus which was constructed at the cost of Rs 5 56 Billion on a 400 acre land and the Jalozai Refugee Camp citation needed Jalozai Refugee Camp editIt was one of the largest of 150 refugee or transit camps in Pakistan holding Afghan refugees from the 1980s Soviet invasion of Afghanistan citation needed It had an estimated 70 000 refugees at its peak New Jalozai adjoined the original Jalozai camp in November 2000 taking in a new wave of arriving Afghan refugees The camps briefly received an additional influx of refugees in the period after 9 11 leading up to the United States invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 After the fall of the Taliban the vast majority of refugees in the Jalozai camp returned home or were relocated elsewhere citation needed In February 2002 with a remaining population of 800 Jalozai camp was formally closed But some problem elements remained through at least 2003 necessitating Pakistani military raids on the former camp that year By 2012 Pakistan banned extensions to all foreign visas and continued its effort to close the remaining refugee camps 3 American intelligence analysts alleged during the Administrative Review Board hearing of Guantanamo detainee Adel Hassan Hamad that the camp was directed by Zahid Al Sheikh an older brother of senior al Qaeda planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 2 American analysts allege that Zahid Al Sheikh was also an extremist with ties to terrorism citation needed Hamad acknowledged that when he first started working for the Hira Islamic Institute Al Sheikh was the director of Lajnat Al Da wa al Islamia and his ultimate boss but he was never the director of the Jelazee Refugee Camp 2 He said that while his relationship with him was a distant business relationship he never saw any clue that Al Sheikh was an extremist or tied to terrorism Medecins Sans Frontieres reported that the camp was closed in early 2002 It called the camp infamous and recounted that it had been known as a living cemetery 4 In a report in the Pakistani newspaper Dawn published in late December 2001 an Afghan refugee named Haji Dost Mohammad who was then in charge of the camp s security reported that Osama bin Laden had made a food delivery to the camp in the late 1980s 5 He may have lived in Peshawar but I never had close contacts with him Once he came to the camp 14 years ago to deliver dates He came only once I haven t seen him since and at the time I didn t know who he was 1979 Soviet invasion editAfter 1979 Peshawar served as a political centre for anti Soviet Mujahideen and became surrounded by huge camps of Afghan refugees Many of the Afghan refugees fled through the historic Khyber Pass near Peshawar That major border city of a million people then replaced Kabul and Kandahar as the centre of ethnic Pashtuns Pakhtuns cultural development during the 1980s citation needed Osama bin Laden was identified as a visitor to the Jalozai camp in the 1980s on one occasion Bin Laden had been based around Peshawar since 1981 where he and Dr Abdullah Yusuf Azzam were running a large contingent of foreign Arabs and material support involved in the Afghan resistance Haji Dost Mohammad the Jalozai security chief and also a resident of Peshawar since 1979 recalled in a Reuters interview in 2001 that Osama bin Laden had visited Jalozai camp in 1987 According to Mr Mohammad Once he came to the camp 14 years ago to deliver dates He came only once I haven t seen him since and at the time I didn t know who he was 6 After the Soviet defeat in 1989 many of the Afghan refugees remained in Jalozai and in other Pakistan camps throughout the subsequent civil war and ensuing Afghan rule by the Taliban citation needed November 2000 New Jalozai edit In October 2000 the USS Cole bombing by al Qaeda brought many relief agencies to Pakistan in anticipation of a new exodus of Afghan refugees The expected retaliation from the United States government then came Though it was limited to cruise missiles fired into al Qaeda training camps in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan the expected wave of new refugees also followed citation needed The old Jalozai camp continued to contain thousands of refugees from the 1980s and 1990s conflicts But in November 2000 the New Jalozai camp was also established next to the existing old Jalozai camp Doctors Without Borders Medecins Sans Frontieres MSF began working in New Jalozai in November 2000 Since that time an additional 50 000 refugees arrived in the Peshawar area and had settled in the New Jalozai refugee camp through the nine months ending in July 2001 7 At the start of 2001 there were nearly 150 refugee camps in Pakistan with some 1 1 million Afghan residents in the camps Just over 3 million Afghans lived in Pakistan overall including the camps 8 By late 2001 the combined Jalozai refugee camps were estimated by Reuters to have been home to 300 000 Afghans in total during various times over more than two decades Most sources put the camp population at 70 000 refugees at its peak citation needed But through July 2001 the combined Jalozai camp was still merely a makeshift transit point It did not have formal UN status as a refugee camp No registration had ever taken place in the camp so substandard living conditions prevailed for the tens of thousands of refugees at Jalozai citation needed In mid 2001 before the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States 10 000 of the Afghans in the Jalozai camp were recognized and registered as genuine refugees by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR and transferred to the new Shamshatoo refugee camp outside the city of Peshawar according to UNHCR spokesperson Melita Sunjic citation needed 2002 camp closures and returnees edit By early 2002 50 000 had been relocated from Jalozai camp Many of those had returned home to Afghanistan following the removal of the Taliban from power in late 2001 citation needed Most of the other former residents of the Jalozai camp had relocated to six new camps built in Pakistan s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa since September 11 2001 including Kotkai Bajaur Shalman Old Bagzai Basu and Ashgaru citation needed On February 11 2002 the UNHCR said that the Jalozai refugee camp would be closed the next day on February 12 2002 Then a statement by the United Nations refugee agency said that UNHCR deputy representative to Pakistan Eva Demant and commissioner for Afghan refugees would officially close the site 9 As of February 11 2002 the roughly 800 refugees remaining in Jalozai were scheduled to be transferred to Barkili close to the Afghan border on the following day citation needed In March 2002 the UN refugee agency began a voluntary repatriation campaign in Pakistan By the end of 2002 UNHCR had repatriated 1 53 million Afghan refugees from Pakistan including 1 4 million from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 82 were from urban areas only 3 were from new camps which had been created in anticipation of the October 2001 US coalition invasion 10 UNHCR emphasis in 2003 was on repatriation from old camps and cities in Pakistan to rural areas in Afghanistan 70 of returnees from Pakistan were from cities and 30 from camps citation needed On March 9 2003 Pakistani security forces carried out raids in Jalozai refugee camp near Peshawar The forces also raided nearby Shamshatoo camp No one was detained citation needed 2004 returnees were 385 000 from Pakistan citation needed 2005 UNHCR plans called for 400 000 Afghan refugees to return home from Pakistan As of early April 2005 11 000 Afghans had returned home 7 000 returned from Pakistan since assisted returns resumed in March Returns were climbing closer to 500 a day from 250 in March Numbers were expected to swell as the weather warmed into the summer UNHCR was then planning with Pakistan for perhaps 1 5 million refugees who would stay after termination of the tripartite refugee return agreement in March 2006 citation needed In 2005 with more Afghans drawn home by improving conditions all the new camps in Pakistan established to shelter Afghans anticipated to be fleeing the 2001 war in Afghanistan had been closed More than 580 000 Afghans had gone home from the camps since the UN s voluntary repatriation programme began in 2002 citation needed As of 2005 camp closures continued in parallel with the UNHCR repatriation operation that began in March 2002 and helped 2 4 million Afghan refugees from Pakistan to go home the agency s largest such programme anywhere in the world citation needed The region was rocked severely by the catastrophic 2005 Kashmir earthquake In 2012 Pakistan continued its effort to close the remaining refugee camps in the country and banned extensions of all foreign visas including Afghanistan leading to a mass number of returnees 11 12 Jalozai Special Economic Zone editIn July 2020 KP Chief Minister Mehmood Khan officially launched the Jalozai Special Economic Zone in the Nowshera District 13 See also editAfghan refugees United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR Demography of PakistanReferences edit Jailozai Jallozai Jalozai Pakistan Earth Geody a b c Summarized transcript pdf from Adel Hassan Hamad s Administrative Review Board hearing page 248 Visa extension to foreigners banned the Nation Archived from the original on 2012 03 14 Retrieved 2013 10 20 Infamous Refugee Camp at Jalozai Shuts Down Refugees Moved to More Remote Less Secure Areas Medecins Sans Frontieres February 20 2002 Archived from the original on February 10 2007 Retrieved 2007 12 05 PESHAWAR On Osama s trail in Peshawar Dawn December 31 2001 Retrieved 2008 05 04 At that time all these Arabs came to the mosque he said I don t remember if Osama was here or not One who remembers him well is Haji Dost Mohammad an Afghan living here for 22 years who runs security at the Jalozai refugee camp Quote from Haji Dost Mohammad who runs security at Jalozai to Reuters in Peshawar on December 29 2001 Afghan Refugees in Jalozai Camp Peshwawar Pakistan a photo documentary July 2001 Doctors Without Borders UN consolidates Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan Archived 2006 08 13 at the Wayback Machine One World South Asia Pakistan s Jalozai Refugee Camp to Be Closed People s Daily Beijing Time Tuesday February 12 2002 Humanitarian Assistance for Afghan Refugees and IDPs Archived 2006 06 24 at the Wayback Machine Center of Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance April 22 2005 Visa extension to foreigners banned the Nation Archived from the original on 2012 03 14 Retrieved 2013 10 20 No more visa extensions for foreigners in Pakistan Pakistan Today Buneri Aziz 2020 10 05 Once a squalid refugee camp Jalozai to become a real estate development Profit by Pakistan Today Retrieved 2020 10 11 External links editUNHCR The UN Refugee Agency Afghanistan In pictures The Afghans who do not want to go to their homeland Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jalozai amp oldid 1115622994, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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