A defense lawyer says a Pakistani court has temporarily barred the extradition of a U.S. citizen of Pakistani origin accused of planning a terrorist attack in New York with help from the Islamic State group.
Tariq Asad said his client, Talha Haroon, was detained in Pakistan last year. He says the Islamabad High Court on Monday ruled in favor of a petition by the detainee’s father to halt his extradition.
Asad said his client’s father, Haroon Rashid, told the court that his son is innocent and that his life will be in danger if he is extradited to the United States In his petition, Rashid says President Donald Trump has “biased and prejudiced policy against the Muslims.”
Asad says the next hearing in the case will be held April 11.
(AP)
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Wikipedia:
> on 10 March 2015, Pakistan lifted the moratorium on the use of capital punishment in the country entirely. On 28 April 2015, according to Amnesty International, Pakistan carried out its 100th execution since the moratorium was ended for the death penalty in December 2014.
Doesn’t sound like Pakistan has any problems with executions. But in any case, here in Canada there is no death penalty and when the U.S. wants to extradite they have to bound themselves to not execute. That is how it is done.