PESHAWAR, March 1: A newly-born baby, who had been kidnapped from the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH), was left in the hospital's gynaecology ward on Monday night, a spokesman for the police said.

The baby boy, Jawad Ahmad, son of Abdul Jabbar, had been kidnapped from the ward on Dec 30. Mr Jabbar had appealed to Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz to order action for the recovery of his son because the police had failed to do so.

On special instructions from the prime minister, the police put pressure on the kidnappers who left the boy at the same place from where he had been kidnapped three months ago, NWFP police spokesman Mohammad Riaz told Dawn. He did not say how the captors boy could come to the gynaecology ward and leave the baby there without having been noticed.