A Pakistani citizen has been arrested in Canada and charged with plotting a terrorist attack in New York City.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, also known as Shazeb Jadoon, resided in Canada and attempted to enter the U.S. to carry out a mass shooting at a Jewish centre in Brooklyn.
Khan was arrested by Canadian police near the border in Quebec on Sept. 4, according to U.S. authorities, who are now seeking his extradition.
“The defendant is alleged to have planned a terrorist attack in New York City around October 7th of this year with the stated goal of slaughtering, in the name of ISIS, as many Jewish people as possible,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a news releaseon Friday. “As I said to Canada’s Minister of Public Safety yesterday, we are deeply …