DHAKA, Dec 17: One of the two Bangladeshi prisoners, who had been languishing in Guantanamo Bay Detention Centre in Cuba on charge of militant activities, flew back home on Sunday after five years.

Mubarak Hussain bin Abul Hashem, 32, of Brahmanbaria district, retuned to Dhaka on a special flight of US Air Force.

After his arrival at the Zia International Airport, the airport police took him under their custody. They allowed none to meet Mubarak.

Abul Hashem, father of Mubarak, said that he sent his son to study at Anawarul Ulum Madressah in Karachi in 1998 for higher education after he passed Title from Jamiya Rahmaniya Arabia Madressah in Dhaka. He said, Gias Uddin, paternal uncle of Mubarak, also went to Karachi and both taught in two separate madressahs in Pakistan after getting their Mufti degree till 2001.

The father said that they first came to know about Mubarak that he was languishing in Guantanamo Bay. “But we didn’t believe that Mubarak would ever involved himself in any militant activity’.

A police official, who interrogated Mubarak in Airport police station said that ‘a Pakistan intelligence officer captured him while Mubarak was again trying to enter Pakistan from the Afghan city of Jalalabad in 2001.’

“After two weeks of interrogation in Peshawar and Karachi the officer handed him over to Federal Bureau Investigation at end of 2001,” the official added.