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Saifullah Paracha, a Pakistani prisoner detained at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, arrived in Pakistan on Saturday following his release from the US military prison after more than 18 years.
Guantanamo Bay’s oldest prisoner has been released to his home country, Pakistan, after almost two decades.
Saifullah Paracha, 75, was arrested two years after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US and accused of being an al-Qaeda sympathiser.
Mr Paracha was suspected of financing the jihadist group, but maintained his innocence and was never charged.
The US military prison in Cuba once housed hundreds of suspected militants captured following the attacks.
“Mr Saif Ullah Paracha, a Pakistani national, who was detained in Guantanamo Bay, has been released and reached Pakistan on Saturday, 29 October 2022,” Pakistan’s foreign ministry said. (BBC)
