Iran extends visas for 450,000 Afghan refugees
Iran said it had agreed to extend temporary visas for 450,000 Afghan refugees for six months, lifting a threat to send them back home to a country facing attacks by resurgent militants.
Afghanistan – struggling to cope with hundreds of thousands of people left homeless inside its own borders by a wave of violence – this month asked its neighbour not to expel the Afghan refugees who did not have the right documents.
