NANAIMO, British Columbia — A Pakistani man arrested final week in Quebec and accused of plotting to assault a Jewish heart in Brooklyn got here to Canada on a pupil visa, Canada’s Immigration Minister Marc Miller mentioned Tuesday.
Miller mentioned Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, was granted a pupil visa in Might 2023 and arrived in Toronto in June of that 12 months. Miller mentioned he wouldn’t present any extra particulars because the case is earlier than the courts.
Authorities within the U.S. allege Khan deliberate to make use of weapons and knives to hold out a mass capturing in help of the Islamic State group on the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 assault by Hamas that sparked the most recent battle within the Center East.
The Conservative opposition get together in Canada have been demanding the federal government reply questions on how Khan was allowed into the nation.
“We take any safety breach and any entry into Canada very significantly,” Miller mentioned. “Let’s not be naïve. A decided particular person can achieve entry to this nation and that’s for the safety companies inside our nation to apprehend this particular person in the event that they commit against the law or in the event that they’re about to commit against the law.”
Miller added that Canada’s police forces “did their jobs” by arresting the person and that “we’ll let the courtroom case take its course.”
Earlier this 12 months a person and his son have been arrested for allegedly plotting to hold out a terror assault in Toronto.
The daddy, Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi, has Canadian citizenship however the son, Mostafa Eldidi, doesn’t.
The daddy can also be accused of committing an aggravated assault in 2015 for the advantage of the Islamic State group someplace exterior of Canada.
