By Bernama,
Kabul : United nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) bureau in Aghanistan declared here that since the year 2002 about 856,000 Afghan refugees have returned to their country from Iran with the assistance of UNHCR, Iranian national news agency (IRNA) reported.
UNHCR spokesman in Kabul, Mohammad Nader Farhad, issued a press release here Monday saying that 5,500 Afghan have left Iran voluntarily in the year 2008.
Now there are still around 3 million Afghan living in Iran either legally or illegally,” he was quoted as saying in the note.
Farhad said, “Afghans have been the largest groups of refugees’ population in the world for several decades” with about 4 million of the 8 million Afghan refugees have now returned to their country.”
The UNHCR has offices in 116 countries.