Mr Khan, clean shaven and urbane, is an MA student at the University of Karachi, but says that he studied briefly at Nottingham Trent, where he played cricket, although that university says that it has no record of him. The group he runs now, to which he refers as the Islamic Students’ Movement of Pakistan, has aligned itself with Isis.
“We have a link to Daesh, to some leaders of Daesh out of the country, through one of our members,” he said.