Foreign ministry says the two men, who went missing last month, will soon be flown home
Two Pakistani diplomats who were abducted in Afghanistan last month have been “safely recovered” in a security operation on Wednesday, the foreign ministry in Islamabad said.
“The two diplomatic officials of the Consulate General of Pakistan in Jalalabad who were abducted while traveling from Jalalabad to Torkham on June 16, 2017 have been safely recovered today in Afghanistan,” the ministry said in a statement.
Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani phoned Pakistan’s Charge d’Affaires in Kabul to inform that the Afghan security forces had recovered the two Pakistani officials in a security operation, the statement said. The pair had been handed over to Pakistani embassy in Kabul and would be flown home soon, it added.
Relations between the neighbors have soured over claims that Pakistan secretly supports insurgents trying to topple the Afghan government. Similarly, Pakistan accuses India and Afghanistan of stoking unrest within its territory.