Over 800 Afghan refugees return home from Pakistan in 2 days
STORY: Over 800 Afghan refugees return home from Pakistan in 2 days
SHOOTING TIME: April 21, 2024
DATELINE: April 22, 2024
LENGTH: 0:01:32
LOCATION: TORKHAM, Afghanistan
CATEGORY: SOCIETY
SHOTLIST:
1. Various of the scene at the Torkham border, east Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province
STORYLINE:
More than 800 Afghan refugees have returned to their homeland from neighboring Pakistan on Friday and Thursday, Afghanistan's Ministry for Refugees and Repatriation Affairs said Saturday.
A total of 837 refugees returned from Pakistan via the Torkham and Spin Boldak border crossing points to Afghanistan, the ministry said in a statement posted on its X account.
The Pakistani government reportedly started the second phase of sending back Afghan migrants from April 15, and more than 550,000 Afghan refugees returned from Pakistan in the first phase, according to Afghan officials.
The Afghan caretaker government has repeatedly urged Afghan migrants living abroad to return home and contribute to rebuilding their war-tor
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