Lahore:
A Pakistani court on Wednesday directed police to produce the confessional statements of five American Muslims arrested for alleged terror links and accepted a request from the accused to hold their trial within a jail due to security reasons.
Ramy Zamzam, 22, Waqar Hussain Khan, 22, Ahmed Abdullah Minni, 20, Iman Hasan Yemer, 17 and Omar Farooq, 24, have been booked for planning terror attacks in Pakistan and for planning to travel to Afghanistan to fight US-led forces.
They were arrested from Sargodha in Punjab province in December last year.
An anti-terrorism court in Sargodha which is conducting the trial of the Americans today directed police to submit their confessional statement during the next hearing on March 17.
"The police challan (chargesheet) is incomplete," the judge observed.
The judge further directed police to make arrangement for court proceedings in Sargodha jail after accepting a request from the Americans that their trial should be conducted in the prison for security reasons.
The accused are currently being held in Sargodha jail. The judge also directed prison authorities to allow the accused to meet their lawyers whenever they wished to do so.