Two Pakistani diplomatic officials, who were abducted in Afghanistan last month, have safely been recovered in the neighbouring country, Foreign Office said on Wednesday. "The two diplomatic officials of the Consulate General of Pakistan in Jalalabad who were abducted while travelling from Jalalabad to Torkham on June 16, 2017 have been safely recovered today in Afghanistan", Foreign Office said in a statement.
According to the statement, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani personally telephoned Pakistan's chargé d'affaires in Kabul to inform that the Afghan security forces had recovered the two Pakistani officials in a security operation. Later in the evening, the two officials were handed over to the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul by the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it stated, adding they would be flown back to Pakistan to join their families as soon as possible.