Kabuk, May 13: A total of 330 Afghan inmates imprisoned in Pakistan have been released and returned to their homeland, official data from the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation showed Tuesday.
The detainees returned to Afghanistan over the past week through the Spin Boldak border crossing point in southern Kandahar province, the ministry said.
Pakistan has set free thousands of jailed Afghans and sent them back to Afghanistan over the past year. Nearly 7 million Afghan refugees, most of whom are undocumented migrants, are currently living abroad, with most living in Afghanistan’s neighboring Iran and Pakistan.
The Pakistani government is set to expel Afghans to their home country in 2025. The Afghan interim government has been repeatedly calling upon Afghan refugees to end living abroad as refugees and return home to contribute to the rebuilding of their war-torn homeland. #nepal #Xinhua
