QUETTA: The vice chancellor and pro-vice chancellor of the University of Gwadar, another varsity employee and their driver reached home on Sunday, around 10 days after they were reported missing.

Sources in Mastung police told Dawn that Vice Chancellor Dr Abdul Razzaq Sabir, Pro-Vice Chancellor Syed Manzoor Ahmed, VC’s staff officer Irshad Ahmed and their driver, Hatim Ali, were freed in the Kardgap area of Mastung.

“All four, including the vice chancellor and pro-vice chancellor, have reached their homes safely,” Babar Yousafzai, an aide at the Balochistan Home Department, later confirmed to Dawn.

​Mullah Barkat Baloch, a relative of Pro-VC Manzoor, also confirmed to Dawn that the varsity official had reached home safely.

The university officials and their driver went missing while travelling from Gwadar to Quetta on May 13. While their mobile phones had been switched off and they could not be traced, police officials believed that they could have been kidnapped.

Later, security forces had launched an intelligence-based search operation and raided various suspected locations for the safe recovery of the university officials and the driver.