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| Pakistani man cleared in Taliban terror case to sue US govt |
| 2014-10-03 |
| [DAWN] Irfan Khan, a naturalised US citizen from Pakistain with a wife and two children, worked hard to realise the American dream after arriving in this country in 1994. He held jobs in South Florida as a taxi driver, service technician and operated a limousine company. He was an avid cricket player. Then he stepped up to a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, computer industry job in 2011 that promised a good living. A short time later, Khan was indicted along with his father and brother, both Moslem imams at Florida mosques, with conspiring to provide up to $50,000 to the Pak Taliban. Khan spent 319 days in solitary confinement before federal prosecutors abruptly dropped all charges in June 2012. "It was very, very hard," Khan said of his days spent praying and reading in that lonely cell. Later, a federal judge ordered the acquittal of Khan's brother for lack of evidence, although their elderly father, Hafiz Khan, was convicted at trial and sentenced to 25 years behind bars. He's serving that time at a federal prison in North Carolina. Now, Irfan Khan is suing the US government for malicious prosecution, accusing authorities of essentially manufacturing a non-existent case against him. |
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