Detainees and their families are left confused, confounded, and frustrated. Pakistani officials frequently claim in communications with family members as well as before the Lahore High Court that the U.S. government is to blame for failure to move forward with repatriation and release of detainees. 120 But many families believe Pakistani officials are trying to hide their own failures and inaction. When asked who he believed was holding the repatriation process back Mubashar whose nephew Javed disappeared from Karachi in 2004 said: “I think both governments, but particularly Pakistan, are lying [about their powerlessness]. The Pakistani government always lies.” 121 Meanwhile U.S. officials have told at least some detainees that it is the Pakistani government that is preventing their repatriation. “The Americans very often tell him [Maqsood] they want to set him free but that the Pakistani Ministry of Interior says he is not Pakistani,” according to Maqsood’s brother-in-law, Mukhtar. “They say they want to free him but his government does not want him back.” 122 Muhammad, who has been in detention since 2002, also told his family that U.S. officials told him that the Pakistani government is preventing his repatriation. “The Americans keep telling him they want to free him but the Pakistanis don’t want him back,” according to Muhammad’s cousin Imtiaz. “They constantly say that to him.” 123 Family members are equally critical of the United States, seeing the continued detention of their loved ones without charge or trial as wrong and unjust. According to Pirzada, the detention of his brother, Mustafa is “a grave injustice” that flouts the rule of law: Everything in this world follows a law. People are arrested along the lines of the law. Here there is no law. There is just the will of the Americans: if they wanted to arrest him then they will go ahead and do that; when they want to free him they will do it whenever they want. There is no law or justice. If there is a law, tell us what it is. Even if he is tried under U.S. law we are ready to accept and believe that. At least we will be able to hire lawyers to defend him. The Americans are in control; they control everything. 124 Families see a double standard and hypocrisy in the United States’ actions. Mubashar, whose nephew has been detained since 2005, claimed that the U.S. government cannot at the same time champion human rights and hold individuals in indefinite detention. "If the United States talks so big,” claimed Mubashar, “then they must also follow through with their words. They cannot claim to be in favor of justice and then not do anything.” 125 Experiences of detainees released from long-term detention in the DFIP as well as Guantanamo Bay has demonstrated that for those who return, often after years of detention, their ordeal takes a new form. Psychologically scarred, having spent years in detention without adequate education or professional training, often stigmatized upon their return, former detainees are often unable to find 120 Justice Project Pakistan interviews with relatives of current detainees (names, dates, locations withheld); Report filed by the MFA in Sultana Noon vs. Federation of Pakistan, 25 September, 2012. 121 Justice Project Pakistan interview with Mubashar, December 2012 (real name, location withheld). 122 Justice Project Pakistan Interview with Mukhtar, November 2012 (real name, location withheld). 123 Justice Project Pakistan interview with Imtiaz, November 2012 (real name, location withheld). 124 Justice Project Pakistan interview with Pirzada, March 2013 (real name, location withheld). 125 Justice Project Pakistan interview with Mubashar (real name, date, location withheld). 32