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| Pakistani authorities question Khan & Son | |
| 2005-08-19 | |
| LAHORE, Pakistan - Pakistan has started questioning a Muslim cleric and his son who were deported from the United States on immigration charges earlier this week after the father was accused of having terrorist links, the interior minister said on Thursday. Muhammad Adil Khan and his son, Muhammad Hassan Adil Khan, arrived late on Wednesday in the eastern city of Lahore after being deported on Monday from Lodi, California. Intelligence agents were interrogating the two men, who resisted arrest on returning to Pakistan, at an undisclosed location in Lahore, one agent said on condition of anonymity, as he is not authorized to speak to the media.
The elder Khan was among five men arrested at a Lodi mosque in June after US authorities infiltrated the local Pakistani community and secretly recorded dozens of conversations over three years. The Khans and another Pakistani | |
| Posted by:Steve White |