Immigration agents barred a Pakistani national suspected to be a trainer for the terrorist group Daesh from entering the country at the Clark International Airport in Pampanga.
Intercepted at the Clark airport was a certain Naeem Hussain, who arrived last Sept. 22 aboard an Emirates Airlines flight from Dubai.
Deputy Commissioner Mark Red Mariñas said Hussain was immediately excluded and booked on the first available flight to his port of origin.
“He was turned away because he is on our alert list of suspected international terrorists for being an alleged trainer of Daesh,” he said.
Daesh is also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Its members have been waging a fanatical and brutal war against the US and its coalition partners in Iraq and Syria where it wants to establish an Islamic caliphate.
Hussain is reported to be on the watchlist of the military intelligence community which sought the BI’s help in monitoring the Pakistani’s possible entry or departure from the country.
The Pakistani denied being a member of Daesh and claimed that he had been working as a digital designer for the last 16 years and that he traveled to the Philippines to visit his Filipina girlfriend who lives in Olongapo City.
Records also showed that he was already denied entry last May when he attempted to enter the country, also from Dubai, via the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).
