Kidnapped Pakistan diplomat back home
Updated
The Pakistani ambassador to Afghanistan has returned home after being freed by suspected Islamic militants who kidnapped him three months ago.
Tariq Azizuddin's release comes amid recent headway in peace talks between the Pakistani Taliban and the six-week-old coalition government led by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.
The head of the interior ministry, Rehman Malik, denies any deal was struck to get the envoy back.
Earlier Taliban sources told AFP newsagency that the ambassador was handed over after the government released some 12 people in its custody.
The envoy and his driver were enroute to Kabul when they disappeared in the troubled Khyber tribal district bordering Afghanistan on February 11.
