KABUL (Pajhwok): Afghan prisoner Haji Bashar Noorzai reached Kabul on Monday, following his release from the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.
The state-run Bakhtar News Agency tweeted: “The Last Afghan prisoner in Guantanamo has been released.”
“Haji Bashar Noorzai, the last Afghan in Guantanamo Bay, was released and handed over to IEA authorities at Kabul airport. Noorzai was kept in that jail for around 17 years.”
Nazar Mohammad Motmain, head of the Afghanistan Olympic Committee, tweeted: “Taliban is making history, they released friend Haji Bashar Noorzai after spending 21 years in US prison. They don’t leave their friend . . .
