Abdul Salam Zaeef الحاج ملا عبدالسلام ضعيف | |
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Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan | |
In office 2000–2001 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1967 (age 56–57)[1] Zangiabad, Panjwayi District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan |
Political party | Islamic and National Revolution Movement of Afghanistan Taliban |
Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef (/ˈæbdʊl səˈlɑːm zɑːˈiːf/ ; born 1967) is an Afghan diplomat who was the Afghan ambassador to Pakistan before the US invasion of Afghanistan.[2]
He was detained in Pakistan in the fall of 2001 and held until 2005 in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp.[2] The United Nations removed Zaeef from its list of terrorists in July 2010.[3]
We were not permitted to talk to each other, but could see one another while the food was handed to us. I eventually saw that Mullahs Fazal, Noori, Burhan, Wasseeq Sahib and Rohani were all among the other prisoners, but still we could not talk to each other.