The Dutch aid worker and his Afghan driver who were kidnapped in the north of Afghanistan six weeks ago have been released unharmed.

Peter Oosterhuis, who is married and has three children, was handed over to embassy personnel on Thursday, the foreign ministry confirmed.
Afghan sources quoted in the Volkskrant say the kidnappers had asked for a €100,000 ransom but both the aid group and ministry say no cash was handed over.
Charity
A spokesman for the Streams aid group said the kidnappers had no connection to the fundamentalist Taliban. ‘We assume they got the wrong man because our organisation is very small and has no money,’ spokesman Evert Kroon told the paper.
Oosterhuis’s identity had been kept secret throughout the kidnapping so as not to further complicate the negotiations, the paper said.
The charity group Streams Afghanistan, which was unknown to the Dutch embassy in Kabul before the kidnapping, has British roots and is funded by church and ‘large non-Christian organisations,’ Kroon told the Volkskrant.
Oosterhuis, whose wife and children lived with him in Afghanistan until earlier this year, is a physiotherapist who worked with handicapped children. He previously worked for the Christian charity ORA in Tajikistan, where he was described as ‘driven’, the paper said.