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ISLAMABAD - Pakistani officials plan to visit the U.S. detention centre at Guantanamo Bay next month to check how many of their citizens are being held, Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao said on Friday.
Sherpao said Pakistan had asked the U.S. government to provide consular access to its citizens held in Guantanamo Bay and was trying to secure their release. “They (the U.S) have agreed and our team will be going there from 19 to 21st July,” the minister told reporters.
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Sherpao said there was some confusion over the number of Pakistanis held at Guantanamo, as the latest figure of 29 does not tally with earlier figures.
The minister said the discrepancy probably meant more Pakistanis were being held at the U.S. airbase at Bagram in Afghanistan, and Pakistani officials would also seek access there.
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Pakistan, a key ally of the U.S. in the war on terror, arrested about 700 al Qaeda and Taliban activists and handed them over to U.S. authorities. |