Two South Africans detained in Pakistan during a terrorism investigation have been deported to South Africa, the National Police Commissioner's office said on Friday. The office told The South African Press Association that Feroz Ganchi and Zubair Ismail were deported to South Africa on Wednesday and questioned by South African police upon their arrival. Ganchi and Ismail were detained in Gujrat on July 25 after a 12-hour shootout with security forces.
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They were detained along with a number of other people suspected of belonging to a terrorist organisation and receiving training in that country. Before Pakistan had reported their detention, Ganchi, a doctor from Johannesburg, and Ismail, a 20-year-old student from Pretoria, had gone missing for 10 days while they were supposed to be hiking in the mountains in eastern Pakistan. |