Around 300 families live on the derelict site near the Crystal Hotel in Karte Parwan, Kabul, and each family has an average of nine people.

Ms Evans said: “Most of them returned to Afghanistan in early 2002 having fled the Taliban regime and the civil war that preceded it, and now have no access to electricity nor clean water.”

She fears many could die through the harsh Afghan winter and added there were around 350,000 displaced people in the country.

She said: “Refugees International reported that air strikes and night raids by US and NATO forces were destroying homes, crops and infrastructure, traumatising civilians and displacing tens of thousands of people.

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