(ROUGH CUT ONLY - NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />A Swiss couple kidnapped by the Pakistani Taliban last July arrived by helicopter at a military airbase in the garrison city of Rawalpindi on Thursday (March 15).<br/> <br />According to a military spokesman, the couple - identified by the Pakistani media as 29-year-old Daniela Widmer and 31-year-old Olivier David Och - said they had escaped from Taliban captivity after the two showed up at a military checkpoint in the northwest of the country.<br/> <br />They were kidnapped in Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan and had been held by the Taliban in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border.<br/> <br />The couple appeared to be in good spirit and waved to cameras as they got off the military helicopter that had flown them in from the northwest city of Peshawar.<br/> <br />They left in a waiting vehicle, but it was not clear where they were taken from the air base.
