Azizuddin "is recovered and is with us safe," Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Sadiq told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which reported that the ambassador's driver and bodyguard were also released and are safe.

A video of the ambassador was released in April that showed him pleading with the Pakistan government to arrange a release for him. He had been abducted while traveling by car on the Kabul-Turkham highway, which links Kabul and Peshawar, Pakistan, CNN reported.

Officials believed that Azizudin's kidnapping may have been a reprisal for the capture earlier that day of Mansoor Dadullah, the brother of slain Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah.