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A plane carrying around 300 Afghans who worked for Spain and their families arrived in Madrid from Pakistan on Wednesday, one year on from the Taliban’s return to power in Kabul. Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares was at Madrid’s Torrejon de Ardoz airbase to meet them when the flight from Islamabad landed at Madrid’s Torrejon de Ardoz airbase at around 10:15 pm (2015 GMT). The government would now work “to help these people to integrate, given that it will be difficult for them to return to Afghanistan in the near future”, Albares told reporters at the airport. Like other Western nations, Sp…