Over 6,500 Afghan refugees return home from Pakistan, Iran in 2 days
The Afghan interim government has repeatedly urged Afghan refugees to return and help rebuild their war-torn homeland.
KABUL: A total of 1,414 Afghan families with 6,619 members returned to their homeland from neighboring Iran and Pakistan on Sunday and Monday, Afghanistan’s High Commission for Addressing Returnees Problems reported on Tuesday.
The refugees have come home via the Torkham border crossing in eastern Nangarhar province, the Spin Boldak border crossing in southern Kandahar province, the Islam Qala border point in western Herat province, and the Abrisham border crossing point in western Nimroz province, it said.
Nearly 120,000 Afghan refugees have returned to their homeland from Pakistan from April 1 to 24, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported on Thursday.
About 7 million Afghan refugees, most of whom are undocumented migrants, are currently living abroad, with most living in Afghanistan’s Pakistan and Iran.
The Afghan interim government has repeatedly urged Afghan refugees to return and help rebuild their war-torn homeland.
-Xinhua
