Zafar Iqbal (Guantanamo detainee 014)

Zafar Iqbal is a Pakistani who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. [http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] His Guantanamo detainee ID is 014.The Department of Defense reports that Iqbal was born on March 1 1983 in Sambal, Pakistan.

Release

Iqbal was one of 17 Pakistanis freed from Pakistani custody, approximately seven months after being repatriated from Guantanamo to Pakistan.June 28 2005. [http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/june-2005/28/index7.php 17 ex-Gitmo detainees freed] , "The Nation (Pakistani newspaper)", June 28 2005]

The "Daily Times" reported that Zafaar Iqbal was from Jhang.cite news
url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_28-6-2005_pg7_1
title=17 ex-Guantanamo prisoners released
date= June 28 2005
publisher=Daily Times
accessdate=2007-01-21] cite news
url=http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/june-2005/28/index7.php
title=17 ex-Gitmo detainees freed
publisher=The Nation (Pakistani newspaper)
date=June 28 2005
accessdate=2007-01-21] According to the "Daily Times" Punjab's chief minister’s adviser on religious affairs,
Maulana Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi, said local authorities wanted to investigate whether the men had been brainwashed and were still involved in any terrorist activity.

There is no record that Zafar Iqbal's enemy combatant status was reviewed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", April 20 2006]

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