KABUL, March 22 (Xinhua) -- More than 3 million Afghan refugees have returned to their homeland Afghanistan over the past one year, spokesman for the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation Abdul Mutalib Haqqani said.

"A total of 3,114,107 refugees had returned to their country Afghanistan from Iran, Pakistan and Turkiye in the year 1404 (in Persian calendar, which started from March 20, 2025 and ended on March 20, 2026. The year 1405 started on March 21, 2026)," the official Radio and Television of Afghanistan (RTA) quoted Haqqani on Saturday night as saying.

The Afghan government, in addition to providing some 4 billion afghani (62,992,126 U.S. dollars) in cash to the returnees at the crossing points and providing temporary shelters, has transported them to their home provinces, RTA reported.

More than 6 million Afghan refugees reportedly have been living in the neighboring Iran and Pakistan and the host countries have asked the refugees without legal documents to return to their homeland. ■