May 22, 2006	Monday	Rabi-us-Sani 23, 1427

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WASHINGTON, May 21: There are 67 Pakistanis on a Pentagon list of all the detainees who have been or are being held at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The list contains the names and nationalities of 759 people who have been held under the US Department of Defence control since the jail opened in January 2002.

One name, that of Saifullah Paracha, a 58-year-old Pakistani citizen, shows that the list also includes prisoners detained by other agencies, such as CIA, after 9/11.

Most of the 67 Pakistanis on the list were apprehended by the same Afghan commanders they went to help and were handed over to US authorities.

Pentagon issued an initial list of 558 names on April 19, which detailed the detainees who went through a military hearing process instigated in 2004. The additional 201 names on the new list are detainees who were moved out of Guantanamo before the military hearings began.

The US military now holds about 480 detainees at Guantanamo after a series of releases and transfers that began in October 2002, nearly 10 months after the detention center opened.

An additional 136 detainees have been approved for transfer or release, but the timing depends on when their home countries agree to accept them.