‘Closing Bagram: The Other Guantanamo’ which included testimonies of former detainees’ families and told their stories of experiences with abduction, captivity, and torture. In this way, the report attempted to raise awareness among US policymakers about the human rights violations Pakistani citizens were facing at the hands of the American government. In particular, it pointed out how the US used the threat of recidivism to argue that this risk made it impossible to release Pakistan’s citizens, who had long been cleared for release by the military court known as the Detainee Review Board (DRB). ‘Closing Bagram’ also shed light on the Pakistani government’s reticence in taking steps to represent its citizens, return them to safety, as well as investigate them for possible criminal involvement. ‘Faces from the Frontier: Stories of Bagram Returnees’ develops on ‘Closing Bagram’ in several ways, including an analysis of how FATA has been the site of state-sponsored militancy since the Cold War, and its even longer history of legal and constitutional marginalization from national governance dating back to the colonial period. Examining this backdrop, the report shows how detainees were treated as collateral damage by the government of Pakistan. As the government attempted to eschew prior involvement in creating conflict and instability in the region, it also sought to keep under wraps that militants were crossing the border to fight the jihad in Afghanistan. It was for these reasons that the government of Pakistan was willing to abandon its citizens to be dealt with by a foreign power. This report, therefore, makes recommendations about the need for state resources and infrastructure to rehabilitate and reintegrate former detainees and ensure that equal recourse to law and justice are available to all its citizens. This report documents the stories of these citizens, spanning their experiences of abduction, imprisonment, and return. In narrating their ordeals, this report attempts to capture and represent what Veena Das and Kleinman have termed the “felt interior” experiences of violence in addition to physical torture and humiliation3 that are commonly documented in human rights reporting. To do so, the report pays particular attention to how detainees narrate ambush and abduction; their explanations of how they came to travel to Afghanistan; the experience of imprisonment including separation from loved ones; disempowerment before the DRB and in interactions with prison authorities; and what it meant to them to finally return to their homes and families. At the same time, the report brings into view the ways in which the fight for justice and its denial became a routinized tug-of-war in the lives of detainees and their families. The paper looks at their experiences thematically, as the violence of waiting, guessing, and remembering — for news of and contact with their loved ones, trying to fathom how they ended up in Afghanistan, and the recollection of life before the rupture of trauma. JPP obtained and documented such stories in two ways. One from accounts detainees provided after they returned to Pakistan. And two, prior to this, over the years of detainment, as JPP’s legal investigators met with detainees’ families to gather information to build their loved ones’ cases and provide advocacy support, they came to get to know them. Both sets of data were documented  Das, Veena & Kleinman, Arthur. “Introduction,” Violence and Subjectivity. Berkeley. University of California Press. 2000. 3 2