About 75,000 Afghan refugees have so far been repatriated from various parts of Pakistan this year, the Associated Press of Pakistan reported here on Thursday.

Some 13,000 of the refugees returned from refugee camps in Balochistan province, the report quoted a spokesman of UNHCR as saying.

Babar Baloch, the spokesman of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in western Pakistan city of Quetta said about500,000 Afghan refugees would return to Afghanistan by the end of this year.

A new phase of repatriation of the Afghan refugees started on March 15 this year, he said.

The spokesman said nearly 100 refugee families are being sent to Afghanistan through vehicles daily with the assistance of UNHCR's Quetta Office.

He said, the commission provides transport facilities besides assistance of 30 US dollars to every Afghan family for their transportation and 8 dollars for their food.

With the help of UNHCR, more than 2 million Afghan refugees have returned their country from Pakistan in the past two years.

Source: Xinhua