Khalid Mehmood Rashid is a Pakistani citizen who was arrested on 31 October 2005, in South Africa. It has been alleged that he was subjected to

extraordinary rendition Extraordinary rendition is a euphemism for state-sponsored forcible abduction in another jurisdiction and transfer to a third state. The phrase usually refers to a United States-led program used during the War on Terror, which had the purpos ...

out of South Africa. The South African government stated that Rashid had been deported to Pakistan, and that the Pakistani government had confirmed his arrival there. Rashid's lawyer said that Rashid had been a member of the

Taliban The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalist, militant Islamist, jihadist, and Pasht ...

on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. The lawyer thought that Rashid was being questioned about

al-Qaida Al-Qaeda (; , ) is an Islamic extremist organization composed of Salafist jihadists. Its members are mostly composed of Arabs, but also include other peoples. Al-Qaeda has mounted attacks on civilian and military targets in various countri ...

locations, and suggested that he may have been handed over to agents of the American government. In 2006, the advocacy organisation Cage Prisoners claimed that Rashid was being held in United States detention at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. In 2007, the human rights group Amnesty International said that Rashid was in secret detention in Pakistan.

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