More than 800,000 illegal immigrants have returned to Afghanistan since October

The Pakistani government has ordered 1.7 million Afghan migrants to leave the country by November .

More than 800,000 illegal immigrants have returned to Afghanistan since October, more than half of them from Pakistan.

Zabihullah Mujahid, the official representative of the interim government of Afghanistan, informed journalists about this.

The rest, he says, were sent to Afghanistan by other countries, including Turkey, but mainly Iran.

The Pakistani government has ordered all illegal Afghan immigrants, about 1.7 million people, to leave the country by November 1. Those who refuse to leave Pakistan on their own before the specified date will be deported, Islamabad said.

Pakistan's Interior Minister Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti said that more than 482,000 illegal Afghan immigrants have returned to their country.

Earlier, the UN reported that 13 million people in Afghanistan are facing food shortages.