PESHAWAR-
Authorities on Monday rescued a kidnapped provincial lawmaker from an area bordering Afghanistan, six months after he was kidnapped.
Rana Jamil Hassan Khan, a member of the Punjab Assembly, was kidnapped by an armed group in May this year near the town of Sargodha as he travelled to Islamabad.
His wife was abducted at the same time but released hours later.
“Security forces recovered Khan after a successful operation from an area in Khyber tribal region that borders Afghanistan,” a senior official in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial government told a foreign news agency.
He would not say which group was involved in the abduction of the lawmaker.
Khan stayed in Khyber district overnight and was flown to Lahore on Tuesday.
A local intelligence official also confirmed the incident.