ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has deported three Frenchmen who have been held in secret since they entered the country illegally 10 months ago to fight Nato troops in neighbouring Afghanistan, officials said yesterday.
Investigators are expected to question the men in France, where the case is likely to draw parallels with Mohammed Merah, 23, who shot dead seven people in southwest France in March 2012 after returning from Pakistan.
Investigators said Pakistani police arrested the trio on May 28 last year after they entered the country illegally from Iran.
They were held along with Naamen Meziche, a Frenchman of North African origin previously known to Western security services as a presumed member of Al Qaeda. “They said they came to Pakistan to deepen their knowledge of Islam and fight in Afghanistan,” an official said. AFP
