Over 4,000 Afghan Refugees Return Home in One Day

Kathmandu. As pressure mounts on undocumented foreign nationals to return to their countries, the return of Afghan refugees to their homeland from neighboring countries has intensified. In this regard, more than four thousand Afghan refugees returned to their homeland on Sunday alone, the state news agency 'Bakhtar News Agency' reported on Monday. According to the news, 4,100 members of 790 Afghan refugee families returned to Afghanistan on Sunday. Bakhtar stated that 772 of the returning families have been sent to their respective provinces with necessary assistance at the border crossings, and the remaining 18 families will also be sent to their home provinces soon. Most of the refugees who returned came from Pakistan. Pakistan and Iran, which have been sheltering millions of Afghan refugees for decades, have recently urged undocumented foreign nationals to leave their territories. Earlier, the Afghan government's deputy spokesperson Hamdullah Fitrat had informed that 76,181 Afghan refugees had returned to their homeland last month. According to him, the repatriation process is continuously ongoing. According to Afghan officials, more than 8 million Afghan refugees have returned to their homeland since the current government came to power in August 2021.