MIRAMSHAH, Sept 21: The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Saturday set free three doctors who had been kidnapped from Balochistan’s Loralai district in June.

According to an official, the doctors were handed over to the administration at Kajori post near Mirali in North Waziristan. Political Tehsildar of Bannu Frontier Region received Dr Nasrullah, Dr Anwar Khan and Dr Ayaz Ahmad.

Officials said the TTP freed the doctors unconditionally after negotiations were held with them through tribal elders, adding that no ransom was paid to secure the release.

The doctors told reporters that gunmen kidnapped them on June 10 while they were going to Zhob. The kidnappers had set free their driver and another person last month.

Last week militants freed seven employees of the Gomal Zam dam project after the government reportedly paid a heavy ransom to them. The TTP had confessed to having kidnapped them.