Pakistani court sets date for bail plea of US terror suspect

ISLAMABAD – A Pakistani court will hear the bail plea later this week of an American citizen of Pakistani origin awaiting extradition to the United States for seeking to take part in an Islamic State group attack in New York City, the suspect's lawyer said on Tuesday.

Talha Haroon was arrested in Pakistan in November 2016. The 19-year-old is one of three IS sympathizers who plotted to cause bloodshed in New York before US agents thwarted the plot, the US authorities have said.

Haroon's defense lawyer Idrees Ashraf said Judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqi of Islamabad High Court on Tuesday asked for a response from the Interior Ministry in Haroon's plea and set the next hearing for Friday.