Court documents filed in the case of a Pakistani man arrested in Quebec for an alleged plot to kill Jews in New York City reveal the RCMP didn’t have enough evidence to hold him in Canada.The RCMP arrested Muhammad Shahzeb Khan on Sept. 4 in Ormstown, Que., as he allegedly prepared to cross the nearby border into the United States.
U.S. officials have charged Khan, 20, with one count of attempting to provide material support and resources to a terrorist organization — the Islamic State — and they are seeking to have him extradited to stand trial in the Southern District of New York. Authorities allege that Khan, a resident of Ontario who also went by Shahzeb Jadoon, intended to use “automatic and semi-automatic weapons” in a mass shooting in support of the Islamic State at a Jewish centre in Brooklyn around Oct. 7, the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel. he RCMP had grounds to arrest Khan based on information provided by the U.S. — but police feared they didn’t have enough evidence to hold him in the country, according to an affidavit filed with Ontario Superior Court on Sept. 4. The affidavit was part of an application for a provisional arrest warrant to keep Khan detained on the U.S. extradition request.
Khan was living in Mississauga, Ont., according to court documents, and federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller has said the accused arrived in Canada in June 2023 on a student visa granted in May of that year.
Source:.montreal.ctvnews.ca/
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
