Islamabad , Pakistan ( CNN ) -- A court order issued Monday blocks five Americans arrested in Pakistan last week from being deported or being handed over to the FBI , officials said . `` 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 , according to Faisal Zaman , attorney for the government of Pakistan 's Punjab province . The five were arrested Wednesday amid suspicion that they were plotting terrorist attacks . They were transferred Saturday from Sargodha , a small town where they were seized , to a more secure location in Lahore , police 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 Lahore High Court scheduled a hearing for Thursday and ordered the government to respond to Khawaja 's petition . A police report on the interrogation of the American suspects , dated Thursday , focused on one identified as Ahmed Abdullah Minni , a 20-year-old born in Virginia . The report said he regularly goes online to watch attacks on the U.S. military in Afghanistan and that he left comments praising the actions . That caught the attention of militants , and he eventually was contacted by a person named Saifullah , the report said . After contact had been made , a Yahoo e-mail account was set up so the men and militants could communicate , the report says . E-mails were never sent from the account , but people would leave messages in the draft section of the e-mail account and delete them after reading them , the Pakistani police report said . `` This mode of communication enabled them to pass on messages without fear of interception by the FBI , '' the report said . It said the suspects made a plan with Saifullah to go from Pakistan to Afghanistan . They gathered in Karachi and left for Hyderabad on December 1 . They tried to hook up with two militant groups , Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Jamaat-ud-Dawa , but neither of them showed interest . The FBI said Pakistani authorities detained the men -- four of whom it said were found to have American passports . Along with Minni , there were snapshots and brief profiles of four others -- Umar Farooq , Aman Hassan Yemer , Waqar Hussain Khan and Ramy Zamzam -- all from the Washington area . Police in Sargodha took a sixth man -- Khalid Farooq , father of Umar -- into custody , and he was undergoing questioning at a safe location . Authorities have said Khalid Farooq has not been considered a suspect . CNN 's Samson Desta and Nasir Habib contributed to this report .
American court order bars deportation of Five Americans . five arrested last week amid suspicion that they were plotting terrorist attacks . Police report says five of the Pakistani left comments online praising militants . Militant contacted American after noticing online comments , report says .