A new ICG report about Afghan refugees notes that there are 900,000 registered refugees in Iran and 2 million in Pakistan.
Such migration is not new to Afghanistan. By the early 1990s, following the Soviet invasion of the country, there were an estimated 6.2 million Afghan refugees globally. This meant that about 1/3 of the population (15 million or so) had left the country!
So since the 2001 invasion, about 5 millions returned to Afghanistan, but today there are still 3 million refugees in Pakistan and Iran alone.
See also this wikipedia entry on refugees of Afghanistan.
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