Pakistan Releases 763 Afghan Prisoners, 3,700 Refugees Return Home
Islamabad. Pakistan has stated that it released 763 Afghan prisoners from jail in the past week. Similarly, 3,700 Afghan refugees returned home from Pakistan in a single day, Afghan officials said on Saturday.
The prisoners arrested on various charges entered Afghanistan through the Spin Boldak border in the southern Kandahar province and the Torkham border in the eastern Nangarhar province, officials said.
An estimated 6 million Afghans are living abroad, most of them in neighboring Pakistan and Iran, and recently both countries have increased pressure on undocumented foreign nationals to return home.
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