‘6 Pakistanis being kept in Guantanamo Bay prison’
ISLAMABAD, Aug 21: Interior Secretary Syed Kamal Shah has said that six Pakistanis are currently under detention at the US Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. Talking to reporters here on Monday, he said that they were not involved in any major crime.
He said Pakistan has requested the US administration to repatriate the prisoners and a delegation of the interior ministry had visited Washington in this regard.
About the extradition of Rashid Rauf, a British national held in the London terror plot case, the interior secretary said that Pakistan and the UK had no extradition treaty or mutual legal assistance agreement.
He said the government had not so far received any request from London for handing him over. Mr Shah denied reports that Rauf’s father and brother had been taken into custody.
“Such arrest is out of question after the detention of the suspect,” he said.
He said that the British government had not yet provided any information to Pakistan on those arrested in the UK in connection with the terror plot.
