Pakistan expelled 852 Afghan families with 4,567 members on Sunday, Afghanistan’s High Commission for Addressing Returnees Problems said in a statement on Monday.
According to the commission, the families have returned to their homeland in Afghanistan via the Torkham border crossing in eastern Nangarhar and the Spin Boldak border crossing in southern Kandahar province.
At the Torkham border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan, the commission provides temporary shelters, nourishment, water, medical care, and transportation services to their respective provinces for the returnees.
The Pakistani government is set to deport three million Afghans to their home country this year.
Reportedly, about seven million Afghan refugees, most of whom are undocumented migrants, are currently living abroad, with most living in Afghanistan’s neighbouring Pakistan and Iran.
The Afghan interim government has repeatedly called upon Afghan refugees to end living abroad as refugees and return home to contribute to the rebuilding of their war-torn homeland.
