"I am happy to inform you that Judith D'Souza has been rescued," India's Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Twitter. KABUL - An Indian charity worker kidnapped from Kabul has been rescued, officials said on Saturday, more than a month after she was taken at gunpoint in the latest abduction of foreigners in the war-torn country. Fraidoon Obaidi, chief of Kabul's Criminal Investigation Department, said D'Souza was rescued in an operation on Friday, without disclosing any further details. Gratitude to (the Indian government)," Jerome D'Souza, a family member, said on Twitter on Saturday. Officials did not say who was behind the abduction, which had prompted desperate pleas from D'Souza's family to Indian officials on social media.

Source: Bangkok Post July 23, 2016 06:22 UTC