The Lahore High Court on Monday barred the government from deporting the five detained young Americans until judges review the case. The court gave the Punjab authorities until December 17 to provide a detailed report on their arrests.

"All the government functionaries, including federal government or provincial governments are directed not to hand over the alleged detainees [Americans] to any American agencies, or any other foreign agencies," the order said.

The court order was a response to a petition from Khalid Khawaja, a former Pakistani intelligence official and founder of an organization called Defense of Human Rights of Pakistan. Under Pakistani law, any citizen can file a petition with a court.

The five Virginia men have not been charged with a crime. The US Government earlier said the 5 Americans who hail from Northern Virginia, will be brought back to USA for due process of law.

The five were arrested Wednesday amid suspicion that they were plotting terrorist attacks. They were transferred Saturday from Sargodha to Lahore, capital of Punjab.

Both F.B.I. agents and officers of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) were questioning the young American Muslims, who range in age from 18 to 24. Two of them are Pakistani-Americans holding dual nationalities; one is of Ethopian descent, one of Eritiean descent and another of Somalian descent.

Waqar Khan, 22 worked for the UPS but was on probation; Ramy Zamzam, 22, was a Howard University graduate who entered Howard’s dental school in the fall; Ahmed Abdullah Minni.

The interrogation report, written by a Pakistani police official, Abbas Majeed Khan Marwat, and obtained by ABC News, said the five men “had deep interest in the religion and they were of the opinion that a jihad must be waged against the infidels for the atrocities committed by them against Muslims around the world.”

Pakistani officials have sent mixed signals about whether the five detained Americans from Virginia will be deported or held for further questioning, said New York Times in its dispatch today.  (MAMOSA)