Published: 20:55, May 3, 2024
Over 1.5m Afghan refugees return home
By Xinhua

A family of Afghan nationals sit on a vehicle in Jamrud area of Khyber district, some 30 Km west of Peshawar on October 6, 2023, as they return to Afghanistan. (PHOTO / AFP)

KABUL - More than 1.5 million Afghan refugees have returned from neighbors Pakistan and Iran to their homeland Afghanistan over the past year of 1402 in the Persian calendar (March 21, 2023 to March 19, 2024), local media reported on Friday.

The media outlet quoting Khalil Rahman Haqqani, the acting minister of refugee affairs, added that around 1 million refugees have returned home from Iran and 600,000 others from Pakistan. The Afghan caretaker government has been urging Afghan migrants living abroad to return home and contribute to rebuilding their war-ravaged country.