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LAKKI MARWAT: Three employees of the Sustainable Development Programme (SDP) FATA Secretariat and a levies man, who were kidnapped earlier this year from Ghundi Hassankhel area of Lakki Marwat, have been recovered Wednesday, official sources said.

The officials and the levies man were on an inspection visit for uplifting the ongoing projects in FR Lakki Marwat when kidnapped by unknown militants from Ghunid Hassankhel area on March 9, 2012.

The political administration officials said that the kidnapped employees have been recovered after intervention of a local jirga, who managed to get them released from the kidnappers.

The SDP officials include Jehanzeb, Awal Khan and Ihsan while the levies man has been identified as Kachkol.

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