The reigning Taliban government was in short supply of drivers for transport purposes and Ul Shah was hired as he owned a truck.

[4] In October 2001, Ul Shah was stopped by Northern Alliance forces led by Punjabi troop commander Qari Saleem while on his usual delivery run.

Ul Shah was sold twice to other Afghans, one of whom severely beat the detainee and broke his nose, before being handed to U.S. military authorities in Kandahar on 26 November.

These hearings were designed to assess the threat a detainee might pose if released or transferred, and whether there were other factors that warranted his continued detention.

On 25 April 2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts.

On 15 June 2008, the McClatchy News Service published a series of articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives.

[12] The McClatchy article quoted Abdul Jabar Sabit, the Attorney General of Afghanistan, who visited Guantanamo and had interview Zia Khalid Najib.

Only their behavior in the prison was taken into account.Zia Khalid Najib acknowledged that he had poor impulse control, and was routinely being punished by the guards provocations and Koran desecration:[12] They would say they were taking me to isolation for three days, and then leave me there for three months.

I would say, and this is a guess, I spent 15 days a month in isolation.Zia Khalid Najib told his McClatchy interviewers that his first interrogators asked him about serving as one of Osama bin Laden's drivers—an allegation he denied.