Officials say two Pakistani brothers who were held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility for two decades have been freed and reunited with their families after returning home to Pakistan
FILE - In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, a flag flies at half-staff in honor of the U.S. service members and other victims killed in the terrorist attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, at Marine Corps Security Force Company, Aug. 27, 2021, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. U.S. officials at Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba have returned two Pakistani brothers, Abdul and Mohammed Rabbani, to their home country. The U.S. move on Feb.
Earlier in the day, Pakistani lawmaker Mushtaq Ahmed Khan, chairman of the human rights committee in the upper house of Pakistan's Parliament, tweeted that the Rabbanis had landed at the Islamabad airport. The brothers' release was the latest U.S. move toward emptying and shutting down Guantanamo Bay. Former President George W. Bush's administration set it up to house extremist suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.
Janjua has been campaigning for the release of suspects arrested in Pakistan after the 9/11 attacks. She is the wife of Masood Ahmad Janjua, a businessman who went missing in 2005 in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. Since then, she has been fighting a legal battle for his release and that of others. He said Ahmed Rabbani frequently went on hunger strikes and that prison officials fed him through a tube. He said Ahmed remained on nutritional supplements up to his release.
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