QUETTA, Feb 18: About two weeks after he had been kidnapped from Aab-i-Gum area, Jhal Magsi Deputy Commissioner Shaukat Marghazani has been freed by kidnappers.

Mr Marghazani had been kidnapped along with 13 other people, including Levies Force personnel, on Feb 1, when he was going to Quetta with his family.

The kidnappers had allowed other members of his family to leave.

According to official sources, the kidnappers left the deputy commissioner in Aab-i-Gum area on Thursday and he contacted the authorities after reaching a highway in the Dasht area.

Levies personnel took him to the Combined Military Hospital in the provincial capital for a medical examination.