More than 2,500 displaced families were transferred from Kabul back to their home-provinces, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said on Thursday.  

The head of the Kabul refugee department, Abdul Matin Rahimzai, said that the evacuation process would continue.  

“We have evacuated 2,500 displaced families from Kabul. Today we are evacuating 450 families from Kunduz and some of the other provinces,” he added.

The UN said earlier that many of these families were incapable of going back to their home areas due to financial problems.  

“We and around 75 families were displaced from Ghor to Shahar-e-Naw camp. We haven’t received any aid from any organization,” said Ghulam Jailani, a displaced person.

Thousands of displaced families are struggling with severe challenges in the capital city of Kabul.  

“We haven’t seen anything good but cold weather, exhaustion and poverty,” said Abdul Samad, a displaced person.

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), nearly 700,000 people were displaced between January and September 2021.