INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A family in Kabul claims that a relative of theirs has been held prisoner in Guantanamo Bay for 17 years.Members of the family say his name
is Mohammad Rahim.They have called on the Islamic Emirate to enter into negotiations with America for the release of Rahim.Safura Bibi, the
mother of Rahim, claims her son was arrested seventeen years ago in the city of Lahore in Pakistan and transferred to Guantanamo.According
to Rahim&s mother he was selling honey at the time and was taking religious classes when arrested.This mother blames Pakistan for her son&s
arrest.She says she is in contact with her son through the Red Cross and sometimes gets letters from him.Other members of the family claim
Rahim worked in the anti-narcotics department during the first round of the Islamic Emirate government and is currently the last Afghan
prisoner in Guantanamo Bay.The family want the US to release him.The family also ask the Islamic Emirate to work to secure his release.The
Islamic Emirate says it is following up on the issue and has raised this in meetings they have had with the Americans.Mohammad Dawood; the
younger son of Mohammad Rahim, who was two years old at the time of his father&s arrest says he hopes to see his father again.The post
Afghan family claim son held in Guantanamo Bay for past 17 years first appeared on Ariana News.
