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NADEEM F. PARACHA   —  Last Monday (06 September, 2015), I received an e-mail from a Pakistani who claimed to be living in a European city. He wrote that he had read my Sunday column in  Dawn  of 06 September, 2015, part of which was about how many members of the clandestine urban guerrilla group, the Al-Zulfiqar Organisation (AZO), who had reached Libya and Syria (from Kabul), were never heard from again. Also read:  The lost boys He insisted that ‘a lot of the boys who ended up in Libya and Syria, did not vanish.’ According to him, some were still living in the mentioned countries, while many also managed to get political asylum in various European countries. He claimed that he was once part of the AZO. To prove this, he shared dozens of photos that he had taken of himself and ‘the boys’ in Tripoli (Libya) and Kabul in the early 1980s. He claimed he is now settled in a European city. His narrative was that AZO and its activities were demon...