Pakistani man who spent 21 years in Guantanamo Bay, dies in Karachi

Pakistani man, Abdul Rahim Rabbani, who spent 21 years in unjust captivity in Guantanamo Bay, has passed away in Karachi, revealed JI's ex-Senator Mushtaq Ahmed.

Mushtaq Ahmed in his post on X claimed: "In 2002, Pervez Musharraf handed over the two brothers, Abdul Rahim Rabbani and Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani—one a chef and the other a taxi driver—for $5,000 to the U.S. They were subjected to three years of severe torture at the infamous Bagram prison and then 18 more years of suffering at Guantanamo."

The ex-lawmaker said Clive Stafford Smith took on their case pro bono, while I raised the issue in the Senate of Pakistan.

"Ideally, the state and its officials should have apologized and made amends, yet the U.S. even denied them the compensation it had given to the Pakistani government for these innocent men. They lived in extreme poverty in Karachi."

"The Pakistani government has not even issued them national ID cards, despite my repeated efforts to raise this issue in the Senate and my direct communications with the chairman of NADRA, Lieutenant General Munir Afridi. In contrast, members of the elite with dual citizenship, favored by the IMF, receive ID cards in hours and become federal ministers, while victims like Abdul Rahim Rabbani do not."

Now, he has returned to Allah, where true justice will be served. May Allah turn his suffering into a source of reward in the hereafter and grant him a high status in Jannah al-Firdous. Ameen, Mushtaq concluded his post.

گوانٹاناموبے میں بے گناہ 21 سال قید گزارنے والے عبدالرحیم ربانی کراچی میں انتقال کر گئے۔
اِنَّا لِلّٰہِ وَاِنَّآ اِلَیْہِ رَاجِعُوْنَ
پرویز مشرف نے 5 ہزار ڈالر کے عوض ان دو بھائیوں،عبدالرحیم ربانی اور احمد غلام ربانی کو جس میں ایک شیف اور دوسرا ٹیکسی ڈرائیور تھا 2002 میں امریکہ… pic.twitter.com/LJN6mnqovT

— Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan | سینیٹر مشتاق احمد خان (@SenatorMushtaq) November 1, 2024