Saifullah Paracha

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US releases Guantanamo Bay's oldest inmate Saifullah Paracha after 19 years

Paracha, 75, was arrested from Thailand two years after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US and was accused of being an al-Qaeda sympathiser

FILE - This undated image provided by the counsel to Saifullah Paracha shows Paracha at the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Pakistan's foreign ministry says Paracha, who was the oldest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center has been released and returned to his home country. The ministry says Saifullah Paracha was reunited with his family on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022, after spending more than 17 years in custody in the US base in Cuba.(Counsel to Saifullah Paracha via AP)
South Asia

Pakistan: Oldest prisoner freed from Guantanamo, back home