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Saifullah Paracha, a 75-yr-historic man from Pakistan who become held in the U.S. defense force penitentiary at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for free of charge for 18 years, has lower back domestic, the department of defense announced on Saturday.

In 2003, Paracha a former businessman and television producer, become arrested by means of U.S. authorities on suspicion of affiliation with al-Qaida. remaining yr, Guantánamo's Periodic review Board decided that Paracha changed into now not a major probability to the U.S.

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On Saturday, Pakistan's overseas Ministry demonstrated Paracha's arrival, adding that it became pleased to peer him "at last reunited along with his family unit."

Paracha is as a minimum the fourth adult who has been released from Guantánamo this 12 months. It is part of President Biden's efforts to cut back the inhabitants of detainees at Guantánamo and subsequently shut the power.

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With Paracha's return domestic, 35 detainees stay at Guantánamo Bay, in line with the department of protection. Twenty are eligible for switch and three are eligible for a review board. nine others are concerned in the defense force fee technique and three detainees had been convicted.