DUSHANBE, July 1, 2008, Asia-Plus — The last Tajik refugee family that fled the country in 1992 has returned from Afghanistan, according to the Tajik MFA.
The Halimov family returned to their native village of Avesta in Khatlon’s Qubodiyon districts on the eve of the National Unity Day, which is marked on June 27. They fled the country in 1992 and over the last eighteen years, they had lived as refugees in the Afghan city of Mazar-i Sharif.
In the letter to Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi, they expressed gratitude to officers of the Tajik Consulate in Mazar-i Sharif for assistance with return to Tajikistan, the MFA said.
We will recall that during a civil, some 500,000 Tajik nationals fled the country seeking asylum in neighboring Afghanistan. The major of them returned after signing of the General Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and National Accord in Tajikistan on June 27, 1997.
