It was his solid reputation as a reliable carpenter, Salim began, that brought him into contact with a man in Landi Kotal locality of Khyber Pakhtunkwa who was building a house in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. This man offered him double the amount of money he was currently earning in Peshawar. Salim agreed to travel to Jalalabad and soon after arrival began work at the man’s house. Just a few days later, the Afghan army raided the house Salim was building and arrested him, accusing him of not possessing a passport. But in Salim’s understanding, Pushtuns did not require passports to go to Afghanistan: he believed they could travel there just as they travelled across Pakistan. Like his inmates, Salim reported being held in tiny spaces of confinement, given meager, tasteless food, and being subjected to torture such as blasting air conditioning in the winter and heating in the summer — all of which they would protest by going on hunger strikes. When we attempted to probe for more details about his experiences in extrajudicial detention, he said his memory had been affected and that he could not remember. Salim’s parents died while he was in Bagram, and as he and his brothers are not close, he explained, he is on his own, trying to rebuild his life in Pakistan. Adding to the lack of family support, his health deteriorated and he found himself incapable of performing the kind of physical labour required of a builder. In 2017, unable to reach Salim, we spoke to a cousin, who said he had grown old, was financially destitute, did not have a cell phone, and was unable to speak due to his tooth infection having never been treated. In 2019, we learned from the same cousin that Salim had died. 21