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A total of 1.6 million Afghan refugees have returned from neighbours Pakistan and Iran to their homeland Afghanistan over the past year of 1402 in the Persian calendar (March 21, 2023 to March 19, 2024), reports Xinhua citing local media.
The media outlet quoting Khalil Rahman Haqqani, the acting minister of refugee affairs, added that around 1.0 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.