PESHAWAR, May 20: Two Pakistani prisoners released from Guantanamo Bay have reached their homes after remaining in captivity for 18 months, sources told Dawn on Monday.

Shah Mohammad of Alladand Dheri (Malakand Agency) and Wali Jan of Dir, both 23-year-old, were released by United States authorities some 10 days ago.

They were shifted to Kandahar first and then on May 13, the Afghan government send them to Islamabad through a special flight, family sources from Malakand told this reporter on telephone.

The sources said that both remained under medical treatment at the Combined Military Hospital in the federal capital for three days.

Later on, the federal government asked the NWFP authorities to make arrangements for shifting them to their homes and on Friday, the Frontier government sent a special team of law enforcement agencies that brought them to their residences.

Shah Mohammad, a bread-maker by profession, had gone with the activists of banned religious organisation Tehrik Nifaz-i-Shariat Mohammadi to fight alongside the Taliban militia against the US-led coalition forces.

The family sources quoted Shah Mohammad as saying that he was arrested by the Northern Alliance fighters in Mazar-i-Sharif soon after the fall of Taliban.

Shah Mohammad alleged that he was sold out to the United States-led coalition forces for Rs200,000 along with other Pakistanis.

“We were taken to Kandahar for interrogation, where US forces shaved our beards and heads. Later, before being shifted to the Camp X-ray in Guantanamo Bay, they handcuffed us, plugged our ears and sealed our lips with tape and made us to put on black glasses,” he revealed.

He said there were 44 Pakistanis in the camp and most of them were mentally sick owing to the third degree torture by US interrogation teams.

“The US authorities shaved the face and head even of the former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, Mulla Abdus Salam Zaeef, at the Camp X-ray,” the sources quoted Wali as saying.

“Most of us were detained in a very small cage, in which we could not move,” he  added.

Shah Wali claimed that after getting the clean chit from the interrogation team, the US authorities offered him asylum in America. But he refused the “owing to his love with Islam, the motherland and family”.

“I will sue the US government in the International Court of Justice for 18 months illegal detention,” he vowed.

With the release of Shah Wali and Wali Jan, now the total number of Pakistanis released from the Guantanamo Bay prison is three.