(ANSA) - Milan, August 1 - A 26-year-old Pakistani national was deported Monday on charges of being an aspiring combatant for the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) terror group.

Warehouse worker Farook Aftab allegedly planned to join ISIS in the Middle East and also to carry out a suicide attack on a wine shop in the name of Islam, which forbids the consumption of alcohol.

Anti-terror police found evidence he consulted Islamist terrorist propaganda and videos online, that he swore fealty to the so-called caliphate via an online video following an ISIS rite for aspiring jihadists living in Western countries, that he tried to enlist his Pakistani housewife in ISIS, and that he believed the Paris attacks to be a legitimate reaction against French air raids on ISIS in Syria and Iraq as part of an international coalition. Aftab was under surveillance for months after it emerged he had communicated online with an Albanian national whose name surfaced in connection with Maria Giulia Sergio, Italy's first female foreign fighter who is now in Syria.

The Albanian was deported last February.

Aftab had arrived in Italy in 2003 and applied for citizenship, but was turned down earlier this year.

