KABUL, July 2 (Bernama-Xinhua) -- Approximately 115,000 Afghan refugees have returned to their homeland from neighbouring Pakistan and Iran over the past one month, the country's Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said, according to Xinhua.
"In the past month, nearly 115,000 Afghan citizens have returned from Pakistan and Iran," local media TOLOnews channel quoted Abdul Mutalib Haqqani, the spokesman of the ministry, as saying.
Haqqani said cash and food have been distributed to the returnees.
Over 2.5 million Afghan refugees have reportedly been living in Pakistan and about the same number in Iran.
The Afghan caretaker government has been urging Afghan migrants living abroad to return home and contribute to rebuilding their war-ravaged country.
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