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Arrested US terror suspects to remain in Pakistan
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-12-17 22:35
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ISLAMABAD: A high court of Pakistan on Thursday ordered that the five United States nationals arrested in the country on suspicion of planning terrorist activities are not to be deported.
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Khwaja Sharif also ordered that in the future any case of deportation of foreign nationals arrested in Pakistan is to be referred to the High Court first.
The five US nationals were arrested last week in Sargodha, a city near Lahore, capital of the eastern province of Punjab. Local police said that they wanted to wage "holy war" to fight against US troops in Afghanistan and had contacted the banned outfit Jaish- i-Muhammad and Jammatud Dawa which had refused to accommodate them.
