By NNN-Xinhua,
Islamabad : Pakistani ambassador to Afghanistan Tariq Azizuddin has been released, Foreign Office spokesman Muhammad Sadiq said Saturday.
“The ambassador was recovered late Friday,” confirmed Sadiq. “He is safe and sound.”
Azizuddin was heading to the Afghan capital Kabul with his driver when he disappeared in the Khyber tribal district bordering Afghanistan on Feb. 11.
The release came nearly four weeks after Azizuddin appeared in a video aired by Dubai-based Al-Arabiya news channel in which he said that he was being held by the Taliban. He said in the video that he had been taken with his driver and his bodyguard who were also shown sitting beside him, while three gunmen stood in the background.
Azizuddin pleaded in the video to the Pakistani government and the foreign ministry “to do all they can to protect our lives and to answer all the demands of the Mujahedeen of Taliban” in order to secure their release.