KABUL, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) — Over 18,000 Afghan refugees have returned to their homeland from neighboring Pakistan last month, the local media Tolo news reported on Saturday.
A total of 18,300 Afghan refugees returned home in January this year. About 1,000 of them, undocumented migrants, were forcibly returned home after being arrested in Islamabad and Rawalpindi of Pakistan, the report said.
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