Hundreds of Afghan migrants with legal documents are returning home from Iran each day through the Islam Qala crossing in western Herat province as tensions escalate between the neighbouring country and Israel, returnees and border officials say.
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) deputy director Andrika Ratwatte says UN agencies spent 2.5 billion US dollars this year on addressing the problems of Afghan refugees.
KANDAHAR (Pajhwok): Authorities in southern Kandahar province have started allotting plots of land to returning refugee families under residential schemes after Pajhwok published a report about shelter problems of the returnees.
KABUL (Pajhwok): Pakistan and Iran continue to forcibly expel Afghan refugees as another more than 3,400 refugees returned to the country from yesterday.
Minister of Refugees and Repatriation Mawlawi Abdul Kabir says as many as 6.8 million Afghan refugees have returned to the country over the past four years, while 1.3 million people internally displaced due to natural disasters.
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