METHODOLOGIES OF NARRATIVE COLLECTION JPP was not able to speak to the detainees while they were in prison, hence, families became the central interlocutors to gather information about what had transpired leading to their loved ones’ disappearances. The narratives documented comprise formal interviews and loosely structured conversations JPP investigators conducted with detainees’ family members while the detainees were in detention from 2003 to 2010. Formal and loosely structured interviews were again conducted in 2013 and 2014 when the detainees were released in order to collect first-hand accounts of their experiences in Bagram prison. In 2018, it came to JPP’s attention that three former detainees, Salim Khan, Hanif Ali, and Yusuf Hamid had died, succumbing to chronic illness, mental health complications, and infirmity. JPP met with their families to discuss filing a petition for compensation of loss, as well as to learn more about the challenges of reacclimation. In hearing their stories again, including struggles and difficulties with extreme socioeconomic marginalization, and lack of access to rights – both contributing factors to returnees’ deaths – JPP began to compile detainee stories yet to be told. The narratives below provide snapshots of different experiences detainees and their families had at different stages of estrangement, and thus they can read fragmentally, and to and fro. It must be emphasized that these stories need to be understood holistically to fully grasp the extent of what transpired in Bagram prison and for the detainees’ families in Pakistan in the absence of any governmental oversight or legal protection. These men were taken and held without charge or trial, and subsequently repatriated and released without so much as an explanation. They and their families were left struggling to make sense of what happened to them, make some sort of peace with it, and to regain the dignity and self-respect they were stripped of so cruelly and so completely. It is through their contribution to advocacy that their stories can become a part of public record. Trauma This report is an analysis of the ways in which Bagram detainees and their families narrativize their experiences with the rupture of detention in their lives, including abduction, imprisonment, and return. The 11 research informants and their families covered in the report were ones who were able to agree to speak to JPP. As the organization’s legal investigator, Waqas Aziz explained, many detainees declined, not wanting to relive the trauma they experienced recalling torture, torment, and loss. Investigators often noted varying degrees of focus, free flow, reticence, and anguish among respondents. Researcher Anam Zakaria, writing on the trauma among survivors of partition, explains how some research participants are immediately open to sharing, while others are reticent, 15