Press TV - Major General Ali Jafari, the chief commander of Iran�s�Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), says five of the 12 Iranian forces, who were�kidnapped last month by Pakistan-based terrorists, have been freed.

The IRGC chief said Thursday that the freed forces are now in Pakistan and will soon return home, and that�attempts are underway to release the remaining captives.

The 12 forces were kidnapped in mid-October by elements of the so-called Jaish ul-Adl terrorist group near the town of Mirjaveh in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, and then spirited away into neighboring Pakistan.