User:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/Afghan Guantanamo captives travel on Pakistani passports

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According to the US Department of Defense 207 Guantanamo captives were citizens of [[Afghanistan.

The Department of Defense was forced to convene a Combatant Status Review Tribunal for all the captives who remained in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps following the US Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. The Supreme Court had ruled that the Executive Branch could not hold captives without offering them a chance to hear, and challenged, whatever evidence there was against them. The Supreme Court told the Department of Defense they could convene Tribunals like those described in AR-190-8, the Army Regulations that laid out how United States Armed Services officers would convene "competent tribunals" that fulfilled its obligations under the Geneva Conventions.

Among the allegations American intelligence analysts prepared as justifications for the detention of the Afghan captives for their Combatant Status Review Tribunals was that they had traveled illegally on Pakistani passports.

Mohammad Gul's explanation of his legitimate use of a Pakistani passport
Mohammad Gul was one of the Afghan captives who had traveled to Saudi Arabia, and worked there, for years, as part of Saudi Arabia's large workforce of guest workers. Mohammad Gul testified about his travel before his own Tribunal, and, as a witness, before the Tribunal of his uncle Gul Zaman, who had also worked in Saudi Arabia as a guest worker..

During his testimony before Gul Zaman's Tribunal Mohammad Gul explained, in detail, how Afghanis could legitimately travel on a Pakistani passport. Because Afghanistan had been beset be decades of warfare, and Pakistan was hosting so many Afghan refugees Pakistan had a policy of giving Afghan refugees who could establish their identity legal Pakistani passports. One way Afghan refugees could acquire a legitimate Pakistani passport was to go to the passport office with a male relative who had acceptable identity papers who could vouch for their identity.