"After Abdul Hamid filed a police complaint, we arrested the female paramedic who was on duty at the delivery room that night, and she led us straight to where the baby was," Jahangir Shah, additional head of Loralai police station, said.
"She had been helped by two other colleagues to smuggle the baby out of hospital and give it to her aunt who was married 17 years but was still without a child. The nurse told us her aunt had been badly wanting to adopt a baby."
The police have arrested all four women, while the family has been reunited with the baby, who has yet to be named.
The alleged kidnapping was unprecedented, experts told the BBC
Officials blamed the incident on the absence of procedures, such as tagging of new born babies, and lax security at exit points.
A senior gynaecologist at Bolan Medical Complex in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, told the BBC the incident was unprecedented but a cause for worry.
"None of the government-run hospitals in the region have safety procedures such as tagging of mother and the new-born baby or their biometric registration which could then be verified at exit points of the hospital," she said, requesting not to be named.
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