Over 2.2 million Afghans return home from Pakistan – UNHCR

More than 2.2 million Afghans have returned home so far from Pakistan since the voluntary repatriation programme of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) started in 2002, an official of the agency told IRIN in the capital, Islamabad, on Monday. “Over 300,000 Afghans have returned to their homeland since the UNHCR voluntary repatriation programme resumed in March this year,” Jack Redden, the spokesman for UNHCR in Pakistan, said….