Americans Arrested In Pakistan.

[BATMAN]

Pakistan will deport American citizens after investigation
Conflicting reports are emerging about the possible deportation of five US citizens arrested in Pakistan on December 9th over alleged terrorist links .

Interior Minister Rehman Malik told media late night in Islamabad his country will not deport suspects until security agencies verify that they had not violated local laws.
But Punjab province Home Minister Rana Sanaullah told journalists in Lahore, the provincial capital where these individuals were arrested that “the next step for these men is to be deported to their home country, America.”

Rehman Malik told a news conference that his government will first determine, “which laws they have violated. Once our law enforcement agencies or courts clear (the detained men), only then will we deport them.”

Rehma Malik insisted that his country’s laws will have priority.
But reports from Lahore suggest Pakistan will accept U.S. requests to deport Americans arrested this week on suspicion of seeking training as jihadist guerrillas.

Five of the men, age 19 to 25, are friends from the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., Pakistani officials say. The sixth, Khalid Farooq, is the father of one of them, Umer Farooq, 25, according to police in Sargodha, the city in Punjab where they were arrested Dec. 9.

Punjab province Home Minister Rana Sanaullah said FBI team is already in Sargodha and is taking part in the investigation. “The Americans want to get access to the men quickly and to get them deported quickly,” he said. “But we still have some points to investigate.”

Pakistani authorities said two of the men were Pakistani-Americans, while the others were Egyptian, Ethiopian and Eritrean, with US citizenship.

The FBI in a statement confirmed US citizenship for four of the five who disappeared from the Washington area.

Pakistan is in the grip of a fierce insurgency by Islamist extremists, with more than 2,680 people killed in attacks since July 2007.

 

[BATMAN]

What the hell is wrong with the this regime change govt.?
Those who break the law does not go beyond police station?
No western media is interested to publish US officials involved in covert activities.
Look clearly in above picture the number plate is visible and if it belong to honda civic than what more proof our respected interior and foreign ministries need?

 

[mshoaib61]

The reality is all of our politicians are sold to western countries ., that is why no one have guts to arrest foreigners who is breaking the law..!!!. Law should be same for everyone , If our interior minister can get speeding ticked in USA , then why Americans cant be held for the offense they do .
Like in Islamabad USA diplomat ran away from the check post, If same scenario was in USA, culprit would be in jail and it does not matter what is the status of Person..

Pakistan police is only busy in abusing our citizens and they cant do anything about foreigners When some officer tries to interrogate some foreigner then our so called patriotic politicians interferes and let them go freely..

 

[BATMAN]

Pakistan police is only busy in abusing our citizens and they cant do anything about foreigners When some officer tries to interrogate some foreigner then our so called patriotic politicians interferes and let them go freely..

In case of americans arrested today, the policemen held them until some Sharif appointed police officer came and rescued them from the custody of lower staff.

 

[Windjammer]

We are basically at war, and in a war, you shoot first ask questions later.

The government is incompetent, the law agencies have their hands tied,
and as it seems the Americans are prone to a provocation a day, some itchy finger PA soldier will repeat the Afghan/Pakistan border feat.

 

[MZUBAIR]

 

[MZUBAIR]

 

[MZUBAIR]

America is seeding terrorist in Pakistan. World should know that there are also number of americans invloved in terrorism.

Pakistan to deport 5 US terror suspects

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is planning to deport five Americans held on terror links to the United States after they were grilled by a special FBI team in the capital Islamabad.

“A five-member FBI team along with Pakistani intelligence officials, a legal advisor and a political counsellor of the US embassy Islamabad is engaged in grilling the five Americas about their alleged links with militant organizations and future plans,” a senior interior ministry official told media.

“As soon as the investigations are over, they will be deported to their country.”

Pakistani authorities arrested the five on Wednesday in the north-eastern city of Sarghoda, about 180 kilometers (110 miles) south of Pakistan's capital Islamabad

Their local host has been handed over to police on a remand by a local court.

Pictures of the detainees shown on the private TV station Friday showed five young men, most of them clean-shaven, in Western clothing.

“It’s not the matter concerning to the US only,” said the interior ministry official.

“We too are concerned about this. Therefore, our interrogators are also grilling them to know about their aides here, and their future plans.”

IOL correspondent made repeated efforts to reach the Foreign Office spokesman, Abdul Basit, to comment on the status of the five detainees, but he was not available.

US President Barack Obama has promised an investigation into how and why the five men left the US for Pakistan.

Pakistan is in the grip of a fierce insurgency, with more than 2,680 people killed in attacks since July 2007.

 

[Barrett]

The threat within
Dawn Editorial
Saturday, 12 Dec, 2009

The story of five young men who made their way from Washington D.C. to Sargodha ostensibly in search of extremist indoctrination and possibly terrorist training is deeply unsettling.

Let’s drop the pretence of this being a purely law-enforcement issue: the latest incident is yet more evidence that Pakistan has become a magnet for those inspired by a millenarian doctrine that preaches hate and seeks to wreak devastation in the name of religion. Worse yet, there is no sign that the state is working to shut down this infrastructure of hate-mongering and religious indoctrination — meaning that almost inevitably aspiring foreign terrorists will meet real terrorists here and be able to carry out a terrorist plot somewhere. What then? Let us not fool ourselves, another 9/11, 7/7, Madrid train bombing or Mumbai-style attack and Pakistan will find itself in a corner, friendless and the focus of the world in a very negative way.

In the days after 9/11, according to a now-legendary apocryphal story, the Americans threatened to bomb Pakistan back into the Stone Ages. Nine years later, with international suspicions of Pakistan’s ‘problematic-ness’ buttressed by fact, the reaction to an attack in the US today that is linked to this country is something no Pakistani could want to see.

Looking at the world from inside Pakistan, it may not be clear just how poorly this country is viewed elsewhere. But there are frequent clues for those willing to connect the dots. For example, a BBC report has claimed that ‘Pakistanis are more likely to be turned down for visas to visit the UK than any other nationals.’ We have written previously about the injustices in the UK visa process for Pakistanis and those factors certainly have played a part in the 41 per cent rejection rate for family-visa applicants from Pakistan. But without a doubt, it is also the alarm over Pakistanis with links to or contacts with extremist groups and individuals who may be trying to enter the UK that has driven up the rejection rate for visa applicants.

Let us also be clear that shutting down the jihad and terrorism infrastructure in Pakistan is not just about helping the outside world. Clearly, any responsible nation has duties towards other nations. But the fact is, the biggest victim of terrorism so far has been Pakistan itself. Thousands upon thousands of people have been killed inside the country, with no end in sight. Spurring the killers is the same terrorist infrastructure that some foreign nationals are in search of. So we need to defeat that infrastructure and we need to defeat it primarily for our own sake.

DAWN.COM | Pakistan | The threat within

 

[FlyingEagle]

Now a days working with US Aid Office (In Lahore) on a project. Two days back some of their officials were travelling in Lahore on Sher Pao Bridge They were stoped by Police. They stoped but refuse to checking of their cars and theirselves. The made a call to some official and they Police persons who stop them come with them and drop them to the office. My boys were with them. They told this story to me.
What one can do with this. The total system is faulty

 

[AchtungSpitfire]

First that Chicago cell involved in the Bombay attacks and now this. I don't like the trend at all.

 

[pagans]

Firstly it's incompetent to deposit all that involves Muslims into the Jihad account. People suffering from injustices, oppression and victimization will demand and struggle for their rights. Take Palestinians for example, they are virtual prisoners in their own country, Israelis can go into Gaza and West Bank at will, kill a dozen Palestinians including women and children, it's merely termed as self defense but if a suffering Palestinian reacts out of desperation, it's termed as a terrorist act.
Until a discrimination prevails, people the world over will react.

If Palestinians stop their zeal for Jewish blood there will be peace in middle east. Jews are the original inhabitants of Israel not Arabs. 20 % of Israel is Muslim Arabs. There is not a single Jew on the other side. That tells who is the real villain.

If Pakistanis want to prosper they have to leave Kashmir and palestianian ' causes'. These are the base causes of your problem.

 

[TaimiKhan]

If Palestinians stop their zeal for Jewish blood there will be peace in middle east. Jews are the original inhabitants of Israel not Arabs. 20 % of Israel is Muslim Arabs. There is not a single Jew on the other side. That tells who is the real villain.

If Pakistanis want to prosper they have to leave Kashmir and palestianian ' causes'. These are the base causes of your problem.

 

[Slides]

Now a days working with US Aid Office (In Lahore) on a project. Two days back some of their officials were travelling in Lahore on Sher Pao Bridge They were stoped by Police. They stoped but refuse to checking of their cars and theirselves. The made a call to some official and they Police persons who stop them come with them and drop them to the office. My boys were with them. They told this story to me.
What one can do with this. The total system is faulty

So you're saying the Americans were from US Aid and all this propaganda against is false as usual?

 

[Slides]

First that Chicago cell involved in the Bombay attacks and now this. I don't like the trend at all.

Not too mention that Headly was a CIA asset according to some sources.