240 Thousands Of Refugees Return To Afghanistan From Pakistan
MEP: The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has announced that since 2001 more than 240 thousand Afghan refugees without legal documents have returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan.
The organization said in a recent report that a group of these refugees and immigrants as voluntary and a number of as compulsory returned to Afghanistan.
A number of returnees have stated in the IOM report that after a decade of living in Pakistan, the living conditions in the country were not easy and have been forced to return to their country.
Some of the returnees have also claimed that after 20 years of residence in Pakistan’s Karachi, have been arrested by police and were expelled from the country.
Afghanistan is among the countries that due to insecurity, poverty and unemployment, a large number of its citizens that they amount to 7 million, have left the country and of this amount, the bulk of them are in Iran and Pakistan.
Migration is a phenomenon that in the past two years a large number of citizens, especially young Afghans have left the country and accepting the risk, where a large number in this way were the victims of difficulties and part of them are currently living in difficult conditions in the camps.
