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Iranian Diplomat Freed From Kidnappers in Pakistan

   VOA News 30 March 2010

   Iranian  state  television  says  an  Iranian  diplomat  kidnapped  in
   Pakistan in 2008 has been freed.
   The  report  said  Iran's  agents freed Heshmatollah Attarzadeh Niyaki
   from   his   abductors   Tuesday  after  "a  complicated  intelligence
   operation."Â   Iran's  chief  diplomat in Peshawar Abbas Ali Abdullahi
   says Attarzadeh is now back in Iran.
   Pakistan has had no comment on the Iranian report.
   Unidentified  gunmen  kidnapped  the  Iranian  diplomat  in Pakistan's
   northwestern  city  of  Peshawar  after  killing his security guard in
   November  2008.  A  police  officer  said  at the time gunmen ambushed
   Attarzadeh while he was driving to the Iranian consulate in the city.
   Iran's Foreign Ministry denounced the abduction as a "terrorist act."
   Last month, authorities in Iran said they captured the head of a Sunni
   militant  group  responsible  for  deadly attacks in the country. They
   claim  Abdolmalek  Rigi,  leader  of the militant group Jundallah, has
   been in contact with U.S. intelligence.

   Some information for this report provided by AFP and AP.

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