Two Pakistani Consulate officials recovered

ISLAMABAD: The two diplomatic officials of the Consulate General of Pakistan in Jalalabad who were abducted while travelling from Jalalabad to Torkham on June 16, have been safely recovered Wednesday in Afghanistan.

According to Foreign Office announcement, President Ashraf Ghani personally 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.

Later in the evening, the two officials were handed over to the Pakistan embassy in Kabul by the Afghan ministry of foreign affairs. They would be flown back to Pakistan to join their families as soon as possible.

Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua talked to Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Karzai and conveyed Pakistan’s deep gratitude to the Afghan government for safe recovery of the two abducted Pakistani diplomatic officials.