Two Czech national women kidnapped in Pakistan in 2013 released

PRAGUE: The Czech government said on Thursday, two Czech tourist who were kidnapped by gunmen two year ago in 2013 as they were travelling on a bus through Balochistan province of Pakistan have been released.

Czech Government spokesman Martin Ayer says the two women arrived in the Czech Republic Saturday morning.

” I can confirm that Hana Humpalova and Anitonie Chrastecka have already returned to the Czech Republic,” the Czech Premier told to private news channel.

Hana Humpalova and Antonie Charstecka were on the road  from Iran to Quetta, provincial capital of Balochistan, when they were kidnapped in March 2013.

 

The kidnappers first release a video of two girls saying that Dr. Afia Siddiqui, the Pakistani national imprisoned in the US on charges of alleged link to Al Qaeda, should be released.