2,106 Afghan refugees return home from Iran
STORY: 2,106 Afghan refugees return home from Iran
DATELINE: June 5, 2023
LENGTH: 0:01:19
LOCATION: Kabul
CATEGORY: SOCIETY
SHOTLIST:
1 various of Afghan refugees returning to their homeland at border between Afghanistan and Iran
STORYLINE:
A total of 2,106 Afghan refugees returned to their homeland from neighboring Iran on Saturday, Afghanistan's Ministry for Refugees and Repatriation Affairs said in a statement Sunday.
Previously on May 31, the ministry also reported the return of nearly 2,800 Afghan refugees from Iran.
Nearly 60,000 Afghan refugees have reportedly returned home from Iran since January.
More than 2.5 million registered Afghan refugees reportedly have been living in Iran and about the same number of Afghan refugees are living in Pakistan.
The Afghan caretaker government has been calling upon Afghan refugees living abroad to return home and contribute to the reconstruction process of their war-ravaged country.
Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Kabul.
(XHTV)
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- 2023/6/05 00:00:00
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