Pakistani captive held in Bagram

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From 2001 to 2012 the United States' military's largest internment camp was one housed on the grounds of Bagram's airport.

It was US policy that they were not obliged to treat captives apprehended during its "Global War on Terror" according to the Geneva Conventions, and, for many years, called the camp the "Bagram Theater Internment Facility".

Most non-Afghans held in the camp, prior to late 2003, were eventually transferred to the notorious Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba. But, for reasons never made clear, some foreigners spent their entire internment in Bagram.

Prior to 2009 conditions in the camp were extremely primitive. Most captives were held in large cages made of razor wire. The cages were built in airplane hangars that dated back to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Those cages had no running water, and the only latrines made available to the internees were old fuel barrels.

In 2009 a new campus was opened nearby, and the existing internees were transferred there. Officially, the USA renamed the camp the "Parwan Detention Facility" -- although it held the same internees, and was staffed by the same guards and interrogators. Most commentators continued to call it by the old name.

In 2012, under pressure from the Presidency of Hamid Karzai, the United States transferred control of most of the facility to Afhgan administration. They retained control of all foreign internees, and of approximately 100 Afghans who they considered the most risky.

Most of the foreign internees were Pakistanis.

ISN name captured released notes
Awal Noor 2006
  • Shepherd whose herds grazed near the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.[1] Six months after his disappearance another shepherd said he "had been lost after an American aerial bombardment."
  • In 2008 his family learned he had been severely injured, and was being held in Bagram. He has not recovered from his wounds, and is reported to have been subjected to long periods of solitary confinement.
Shoaib Khan 2008
  • Holder of an advanced degree.[1]
Umran Khan 2005 2013-11-16
  • Captured crossing into Afghanistan at Torkham, after a friend made a job offering to him for work in Afghanistan.[1]
  • His family believes his friend's job offer was bogus, and that he was denounced for a bounty.[1]
Mohammed Riaz 2005 2013-11-16
Amanat Ullah Ali 2003

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Pakistani prisoners in Bagram Jail". The Nation (Pakistan). 20014-03-30. Archived from the original on 2014-04-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20140331020628/http://www.nation.com.pk/international/30-Mar-2014/pakistani-prisoners-in-bagram-jail. Retrieved 2014-03-19.