The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday reserved verdict in an intra-court appeal (ICA) against extradition of a US national of Pakistan origin, Talha Haroon, allegedly involved in hatching conspiracy to carry out terrorist activity in New York, to the USA.

A division bench of the IHC comprising Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb heard the petition and reserved the judgment after counsels of both the sides concluded their arguments.

During the previous hearing, Justice Miangul Hassan had observed that the offences with which the accused had been charged were not extradition offences because they were neither mentioned in the treaty nor in the schedule of the act.

He added that how a person could be surrendered to another country who had been charged for non-extraditable offences and directed the deputy attorney general to satisfy the court on that point.

In the petition, petitioner's counsel stated that the appellant, being aggrieved of the finding of inquiry officer and order of the Ministry of Interior.

He submitted that the petition was filed before the IHC, which was disposed of on May 3, 2019 with a direction to inquiry officer to conclude the inquiry within a period of 60 days, afresh.

Hence, he has filed this intra-court appeal against the aforementioned judgment.

He added that the petition filed by the appellants was disposed of by the learned single judge without any direction or order for discharging and releasing the appellant's son.

He prayed before the court that the impugned judgment to the extent of fresh decision of inquiry magistrate may kindly be suspended.

He further requested to release Talha Haroon from custody pending adjudication of the instant appeal.