Melbourne-based Pakistani student Salman Ghumman, 23, was deported on Monday on security grounds after being questioned by Australian security intelligence officials over allegedly suspect phone calls to Pakistan. Ghumman has been deported and is now on his way back to Pakistan, an Australian newspaper quoted the Immigration Department as saying.
He was detained last month by immigration officials after several months of questioning by Australian Security Intelligence Organisation officials over alleged suspect phone calls made to Pakistan and questioned why he was in Australia, the paper said. The paper quoted his father, Manzoor Hussain Ghumman, a retired Pakistani air force officer, saying the family was concerned about his son’s fate if Pakistani security services pick him up upon return.
