KABUL (Dispatches) --
Taliban authorities at the Refugee and Repatriation Department of Nimruz province announced that 7,612 Afghan refugees have returned to the country from Iran over the past week.
Sediqullah Nasrat, the director of the Refugees and Repatriation Department of Nimruz provinc, said that only 519 refugees received cash aid from the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
He said some 7,612 Afghan migrants have returned to the country from Iran through the Abrishum land route over the past week alone.
The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation Afghanistan said it signed Saturday a Memorandum of Understanding (IOM) with a private organization called ‘Osta’ to create employment opportunities for more than a thousand needy families.
Some experts have described the main reason for the migration of Afghan nationals to the neighboring countries as extreme poverty, unemployment, lack of job security, and political instability.
Local residents say that in the absence of jobs, they don’t have a choice but to migrate to other countries no matter what the consequences might be.
Prior to this, the authorities of the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation reported the return of some 3,000 Afghan migrants, many of whom left Iran of their own will.
Since the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, thousands of Afghans have fled Afghanistan to the neighboring countries fearing persecution and death threats.