WASHINGTON, May 2: Among the Pakistanis imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, the largest group is from Karachi, and students of the city's Binori madressah outnumber others, diplomatic and US sources told Dawn.

Although most prisoners have a religious background, some are from secular universities and colleges as well, including one who has two master's degrees in social sciences.

It is still not clear how many Pakistanis were brought to the US prison facility in Cuba, the estimates vary from 64 to 82 but so far 24 have been released. The second highest number of prisoners is from the Bahawalpur district. Most of them are from the Saraiki belt, educated in madressah set up by Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam.

Madressah students from northern Punjab are third on the list and those from the NWFP are fourth. A few are from Balochistan's Pukhtun belt as well but there is no Sindhi or Baloch student among them.

The names of the Pakistani prisoners, released or still in detention are as follows:

Mohammad Abbas, Ali Ahmad, Ejaz Ahmad, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Sarfraz Ali, Syed Saim Ali, Aminullah Amin, Mohammad Ansar, Mohammad Anwar, Mohammad Ashraf, Haseeb Ayub, Fazal Dad,Mohammad Hanif, Mohammad Iilyas, Faid Iqbal, Zafar Iqbal, Mohammad Irfan, Mohammad Ishaq, Mohammad Jamaluddin, Aziaullah Jan, Alef Khan, Aziz Khan, Badshah Khan, Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Hamood ullah Khan, Issa Khan, Mohammad Ejaz Khan, Mohammad Kashif Khan, Tariq Aziz Khan, Kifayatullah, Hafiz Liaqat Manzoor, Abdul Maula, Majid Mehmood, Talli Mehmood, Ali Mohammad, Shah Mohammad, Muneer bin Naseer, Mohammad Nauman, Mohammad Omar, Mohammad Rafiq, Abdul Rahim, Abid Raza, Mohammad Arshad Raza, Abdul Razaq, Abdul Rehman, Hafiz Khalil ur Rehman, Sajid-ur Rehman, Hafiz Ehsan Saeed, Mohammad Saeed, Abdul Sattar Safeesi, Mohammad Sagheer, Ghazi Salahuddin, Abdul Sattar, Syed Zia Hussain Shah, Zahid Sultan, Mohammad Tariq, Jehan/ Jan Wali, Badar uz Zaman, Qaisir Zaman.