Kabul, July 11 -- More than 5,000 Afghan refugee families, with the vast majority of them from Iran, returned to their homeland Afghanistan in a single day yesterday, reported the state-run Bakhtar news agency today.
A total of 4,852 families returned from Iran, and the remaining 153 others returned from Pakistan, the state-owned media outlet added.
The massive scale return of refugees continues amid the Afghan interim government's request to Iran to exercise restraint and slow down the refugees' expulsion, as Tehran asked the Afghan nationals living in Iran illegally to leave the country.
In a recent statement, the Office of the Prime Minister of Afghanistan's interim government, as reported by Bakhtar News Agency, expressed gr...