“We watched them for one and a half days and then arrested them,” Usman Anwar, police chief of Sargodha, told reporters.
“We seized laptops and other things from their possession. Later we came to know that they have come here with the intention of ‘jihad’.”…
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Officials from the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) told reporters that the men’s families contacted the organisation after they went missing…
Mr Awad said the families brought along a video that included war images and verses from the Koran and showed one of the five men delivering a “final statement”.
He also said they were “directly connected” to al-Qaeda, and planned to launch attacks inside and outside Sargodha.
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