Intelligence agencies
are interrogating 397 Pakistanis recently released from
Afghanistan jails and Guantanamo Bay, The Fact has learnt.
Sources said that 364 activists of various
jihadi organisations, released from Afghanistan, and 33
from Guantunamo bay were being interrogated in Pakistani
jails. Out of the 397, 197 are from Punjab, 84 from Sindh,
103 from the NWFP, one from Islamabad, five from Azad
Kashmir and one from Balochistan. The sources said that
intelligence agencies were investigating whether they
had been in involved in terrorism or sectarian violence
in the past.
“Their release will be decided on
the basis of the investigation,” a law enforcement
agency official said.
An intelligence officer said that most
of the prisoners were involved in crime. “We are
interrogating about their activities in the past and collecting
information from district administrations.”
These prisoners went to Afghanistan to
fight alongside the Taliban against the United States
and its allies in 2001. The Northern Alliance captured
them from Mazar-e-Sharif, Kunduz, Kabul and Baghlan after
the fall of the Taliban. The prisoners reportedly told
investigators that the Northern Alliance had handed over
many prisoners to Americans to get prizes from them. Afghan
warlords also captured many Pakistani jihadis and demanded
money for their releases.
