KABUL, March 17 (Xinhua) -- A total of 96 Afghan refugee families returned to their homeland Afghanistan in a single day on Sunday, reported the state-run Bakhtar news agency on Monday.
The migrants returned from neighboring Iran and Pakistan, the state-owned media outlet said, adding all the returnees have received necessary assistance from the government bodies at the crossing points before departure for their provinces.
Since the decision of Pakistan and Iran to deport foreign nationals living illegally on their soil, hundreds of Afghans return to their homeland every day.
Around 120 Afghan refugee families returned to their homeland last week.
More than 1.2 million Afghan refugees have reportedly returned to their homeland from Pakistan and Iran over the past year, while some 6 million Afghan refugees with the majority of them living in the neighboring countries are yet to return. ■
