ISLAMABAD: The kidnapped son of a liberal Pakistani governor assassinated by his bodyguard has been found, senior officials said Tuesday, just over a week after his father’s killer was hanged.

Shahbaz Taseer is in “feeble” health, said Aitzaz Goraya, head of the Counter-Terrorism Department of southwestern Balochistan province, where officials said he was found after a police raid.

Taseer had been abducted by militants from the city of Lahore in August 2011, months after his father Salmaan was killed for opposing the country’s controversial blasphemy laws.

The governor’s assassin, Mumtaz Qadri, was hanged on Feb. 29.

The Pakistani Taliban have never officially confirmed their involvement in the kidnapping, but a militant source told AFP Tuesday that an army operation in the tribal areas had made it “difficult” for the group to keep him.

“That’s why they preferred to set him free,” the source said. Militant commanders have privately told AFP in the past Taseer was being kept somewhere in the tribal areas of North and South Waziristan. The source Tuesday said he was moved after Operation Zarb-e-Azb was launched in North Waziristan in 2014.

“Acting on a tip off, intelligence forces and police went to a compound in the Kuchlak district some 25 kilometers north of Quetta,” Goraya said.