US citizen father of one of the men arrested in Pakistan is said to “have ties to Jaish-e-Muhammad” and has also been arrested. The group was created by Pakistani intelligence to fight in the Kashmir conflict but has since evolved to join the violent global caliphate “liberation” movement.
Khalid Farooq and his wife, the parents of Umer, were at the apartment with the five men at the time of arrest.
The New York Times reports that Farooq runs a small mosque out of his home in Virginia.
