Zia Ul Shah

Zia Ul Shah (; born 5 January 1975) is a Pakistani citizen best known for the time he spent in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 15.

Ul Shah was a delivery driver for the Taliban in Afghanistan's Kunduz Province, who was captured in 2001. transferred to Pakistan on 11 October 2006.

Background Ul Shah travelled to Afghanistan in 2000 in search of work. The reigning Taliban government was in short supply of drivers for transport purposes and Ul Shah was hired as he owned a truck. Ul Shah was able to negotiate the terms of his contract, refusing to transport militants to fighting locations. He was instead put in charge of a route to supply a Taliban base in Kunduz, primarily delivering food.

In October 2001, Ul Shah was stopped by Northern Alliance forces led by Punjabi troop commander Qari Saleem while on his usual delivery run. According to Ul Shah, he was not immediately detained, but obliged their request to transport several surrendered Taliban fighters for them to a compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, controlled by warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, in exchange for his freedom, which he said was a common arrangement for accosted Taliban drivers. At Dostum's camp, the Northern Alliance soldiers did not uphold their end of the deal because Ul Shah was a foreigner and that the group left Ul Shah behind as they bickered over ownership of his now-confiscated vehicle. Ul Shah was briefly sheltered and fed by an Afghan local, who kept him captive after Ul Shah told him that he was from Pakistan. Ul Shah was sold twice to other Afghans, one of whom severely beat the detainee and broke his nose, before being handed to U.S. military authorities in Kandahar on 26 November. A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for the tribunal of each detainee. The memo for his hearing lists the following allegations:

Shah chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.

The following factors favor continued detention

The following primary factors favor release or transfer

Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment

On 25 April 2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts. His 5 page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on. Zia Khalid Najib was one of the former captives who had an article profiling him.

The McClatchy article quoted Abdul Jabar Sabit, the Attorney General of Afghanistan, who visited Guantanamo and had interview Zia Khalid Najib.