Since 2001 nearly 5m Afghan refugees have returned to the country.

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India is making arrangements to have the bodies of those killed returned to the country, according to Akbaruddin.

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Scores of former officers have been convicted since the country returned to democracy, and the military has largely accepted the verdicts.

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Many miners were migrant labourers from around the country and the bodies of some of the dead have already been returned to their home villages, reports Agence France-Presse.

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Zebari said nearly 31, 000 Iraqis have also fled the war in Syria and returned to their native country.

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