TABLE OF CONTENTS GLOSSARY i EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 INTRODUCTION 5 THE FIRST BAGRAM REPORT 5 NARRATIVES OF LOSS: WAITING, GUESSING, AND REMEMBERING 7 Waiting 7 Guessing 8 Remembering 10 THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN FATA 11 Pre- and post-9/11 FATA 11 FATA as a state of exception 12 METHODOLOGIES OF NARRATIVE COLLECTION 15 Trauma 15 Memory 16 THE DETAINEES AND THEIR FAMILIES TELL THEIR STORIES 17 Salim Khan, the carpenter 19 Rehan Afridi, a bounty exchange 23 Usman Yusuf, planted evidence 27 Haroon Ahmed, capture in Iraq 31 Yasir Wazir, the lion 35 Gul Yacoob, in Black Jail 39 Umer Shah’s hand 41 Yusuf Hamid, scenes from a memory Mushtaq Ayub, the loan 47 Shakil Nazar’s admission 51 Hanif Ali, a fragile mind 55 43 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 59 Treating trauma 59 Addressing socioeconomic disenfranchisement 60