PTI - Chitral (Pakistan), Apr 8 (AFP) Afghan Taliban have released a Greek man safe and well seven months after he was kidnapped in northwest Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, officials said today."He is released," Greek ambassador to Islamabad, Petros Mavroidis, told AFP. "We talked with him and he is in the hands of competent agencies and they will bring him today or tomorrow to Islamabad to the Greek embassy," he added.
Pakistani officials said Athanassios Lerounis's seven-month abduction ordeal ended late yesterday after he was released in Afghanistan and brought across the border into Pakistan's northwestern Chitral valley.
"He is with us. He is safe. It was a difficult task but our intelligence agencies did this job," Rahmatullah Wazir, the top administrative official in Chitral, told AFP by telephone.
Elders from Chitral had been negotiating with those holding Lerounis in the neighbouring Afghan province Nuristan, the official said.
Pakistani officials said Athanassios Lerounis's seven-month abduction ordeal ended late yesterday after he was released in Afghanistan and brought across the border into Pakistan's northwestern Chitral valley.
"He is with us. He is safe. It was a difficult task but our intelligence agencies did this job," Rahmatullah Wazir, the top administrative official in Chitral, told AFP by telephone.
Elders from Chitral had been negotiating with those holding Lerounis in the neighbouring Afghan province Nuristan, the official said.
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