Pakistan's first prisoner released from Guantanamo returns home

Wednesday, November 6, 2002

PATTAN, Pakistan -- Wrapped in a deep purple shawl, 9-year-old Salehla at first tried to hide, but then spoke shyly of hearing her mother cry for her father, a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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