According to the

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, there were five dozen Pakistani detainees in Guantanamo prior to May 15, 2006. The

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was opened on January 11, 2002. In the summer of 2004, following the

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's ruling in ''

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,'' the Department of Defense stopped transferring men and boys to Guantanamo. The Supreme Court determined that the detainees had to be given a chance to challenge their detentions in an impartial tribunal. On September 6, 2006

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announced the transfer of 14

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from CIA custody to military custody at Guantanamo, including several additional Pakistanis. On September 7, 2008 Pakistan's '' Daily Times'' quoted

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, stating that only five Pakistanis remained in captivity in Guantanamo:

Ume Amaar Al Balochi Ammar Al-Baluchi ( ar, عمار البلوشي, ; also transliterated as Amar Al-Balochi, born Ali Abdul Aziz Ali,Shannon, Elaine. ''Time''Al-Qaeda Moneyman Caught 1 May 2003 29 August 1977) is a Pakistani citizen in U.S. custody at Guantanamo ...

, Majid Khan, Abdul Rabbani,

Muhammad Ahmed Muhammad Ahmad ( ar, محمد أحمد ابن عبد الله; 12 August 1844 – 22 June 1885) was a Nubian Sufi religious leader of the Samaniyya order in Sudan who, as a youth, studied Sunni Islam. In 1881, he claimed to be the Mahdi, an ...

, Ghulam Rabbani and Saifullah. A sixth man, Qari Muhammad Saeed, was reported to have been released on August 29, 2008.

Pakistanis detainees in Guantanamo

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