Permanent Return To Canada
Zaynab lived in a rented apartment with her daughter and younger sister in Islamabad, Pakistan, and although her passport was revoked by the Canadian High Commission in Pakistan, she returned to Canada on February 17, 2005 to be with her mother, and help the legal defence teams of her brothers Abdullah Khadr and Omar Khadr. Zaynab and her mother are both on passport "control" lists, meaning they will no longer be issued Canadian passports due to the frequency with which they reported losing their passports since 1999.
When she returned to Canada, security officials, including Konrad Shourie, met her at the airport bearing a search warrant stating that "Zaynab Khadr has willingly participated and contributed both directly and indirectly towards enhancing the ability of Al Qaeda", and seized her laptop, DVDs, audiocassettes, diary and other files. They claimed that they were able to determine the present locations of multiple al-Qaeda veterans, though were not able to produce any evidence to charge her. Zaynab offered the defence that she had purchased the computer second-hand seven months before her trip. After the expiry of the three-month limit on holding the items, the RCMP was granted a one-year extension on June 18.
On October 5, 2009, Isabel Teotonio, writing in the Toronto Star, while reporting on her brother Abdullah's extradition hearing, asserted that Canadian officials had seized a hard drive that had belonged to her father.
Although she has indicated a desire to one day return to Pakistan, her Canadian passport remains withheld, rendering her unable to leave the country.
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