Pul-I-Alam: Five days after their abduction seven Pakistani workers were released in Afghanistan on Monday a, police said.
The Pakistanis, engineers and workers on a hospital construction project in Logar province, just south of the capital Kabul were freed unharmed, provincial police chief Ghulam Sakhi Roghliwani said.
It was not clear what prompted their release, he added, saying an investigation into the incident was underway.
The men were snatched at gunpoint Wednesday as they drove from their workplace back to their accommodation in Pul-i-Alam, provincial capital of Logar, which is troubled by the Taliban-led insurgency.
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