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A former detainee who knew the Canadian-Egyptian inside Bagram, Ghairat Baheer, said Ismail's Western attitudes and habits irritated other Muslim detainees. Baheer, who spent four years in the detention facility, said Ismail told him he was "not captured as a fighter or a warrior" and was travelling in Afghanistan at the time.
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Ghairat Baheer was taken from his house in Islamabad early on Tuesday, an unnamed Pakistani police officer told the Reuters news agency. It is not clear exactly why he has been detained.
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Baheer, who said he spent six months in the Salt Pit during six years in Afghan prisons, said in an interview in Islamabad that he never learned what happened to Rahman. Rahman's family repeatedly pressed International Red Cross officials about his fate, Baheer said. "If he died there in interrogation or he died a natural death they should have told his family and ended their uncertainty," Baheer said.
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Rahman was captured about three weeks before his death in a raid in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad against Hezb-e-Islami, an Afghan insurgent group led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, which was believed to have ties to al-Qaida. Rahman was arrested along with Hekmatyar's son-in-law, Dr. Ghairat Baheer.
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Terming their recently concluded five-day visit to Afghanistan successful, chairman of the political committee of the Hizb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA), Dr Ghairat Baheer Wednesday said they would never make any deal on the Islamic identity, independence and national integrity of Afghanistan.
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A Taliban delegation led by former Afghan consul-general in Peshawar, Maulvi Najibullah, and a three-member Hizb-e-Islami delegation led by Dr Ghairat Baheer, in charge of political affairs of Hizb-e-Islami, recently visited Saudi Arabia to hold informal talks with kingdom officials, diplomats familiar with the talks said, requesting anonymity.
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The three men whom President Ghani had hoped to draw into his government were Mullah Zaeef, the former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, who has lived relatively openly in Kabul for some years, Wakil Muttawakil, the former Taliban foreign minister, and Ghairat Baheer, a close relative of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, whose forces are allied to the Taliban.
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"Hizb-e-Islami leadership expects that you (released inmates) become patriotic citizens for this country," said Ghairat Baheer, head of Hizb-e-Islami-Government Peace Accord Commission.