Canada Border Services Agency and Anser Farooq

Islamic State: Malik has asked us to reach out and secure any assistance you may be in a position to advance," Anser Farooq writes on behalf of his client. "This assistance can be in the form of financial, and/or bonds person required to secure his release from detention." Canada Border Services Agency arrested Malik, 33, on March 9 following an undercover investigation amid government accusations that he supports the Islamic State and planned to attack the U.S. consulate and other financial district buildings, according to Hamilton Spectator. The permanent resident of Canada remains in detention in expectation the government will move to declare him inadmissible and deport him — a process that could take months — rather than prosecute him. The request by Jahanzeb Malik comes in a letter to Pakistan consulate general through his lawyer. "As a Pakistani national, Mr. At previous detention reviews — in which no one came forward to act as a surety — the government lawyer declared Malik to be a flight and security risk. "The outcome of Mr. No one from Pakistan consulate general in Toronto nor its high commission in Ottawa returned calls seeking comment. Malik inadmissibility hearing should be of the highest priority to your government," Farooq wrote in the letter sent to the consulate last month. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.