Islamabad: Pakistan would send a delegation to Guantanamo Bay on July 19 to meet Pakistanis languishing in the US-run prison for terror suspects, the country's Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao said on Sunday.
Director-General of Interior Ministry's National Crisis Management Cell Brig Javed Iqbal Cheema will lead the three-member team, said officials.
Sherpao said a team will also visit Bagram, a US base 50 km north of Kabul to meet several Pakistani prisoners believed to be kept there.
The Pakistanis were arrested in Afghanistan in 2001 and 2002 after a US-led war that led to the ouster of Taliban.
Sherpao said that eight of the Pakistanis in Guantanamo have been identified and would be repatriated soon.
About 67 Pakistanis had already returned to the country from Guantanamo Bay, he added.
US authorities had asked Pakistan to keep an eye on all prisoners repatriated from Guantanamo Bay, reports said.
One of them, Esa Khan of Bannu, Northwest Frontier Province, said the Government has imposed restrictions on all former Guantanamo prisoners that they cannot go out of their hometowns without police information.
"We have also been told not to go to public parks and religious seminaries and also avoid meeting young people," said Khan, adding though he had appealed to human rights groups to oppose the restrictions, no one helped the former inmates.
Sherpao welcomed a truce by militants in the North Waziristan tribal region and hoped it would have positive impact on the situation in the volatile region.
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