BOSTON — A man arrested in Massachusetts during the probe into the failed Times Square bombing has been ordered deported to his native Pakistan.

U.S. immigration Judge Robin Feder made the ruling Thursday in the case of Aftab Khan, according to Kathryn Mattingly of the Executive Office for Immigration Review. The ruling was announced Friday.

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Aftab Ali Khan, shown May 13 during his arrest, claims he doesn’t know the suspect in the failed Times Square bombing, but Customs agents say items found in his Watertown, Mass., residence show otherwise. On Friday, Khan was ordered deported to his native Pakistan. The Associated Press

Khan was one of three men arrested on immigration charges May 13 and suspected of supplying funds to the primary suspect, Faisal Shahzad, through an informal money transfer network. But authorities said the men may not have known how the money would be used.

Khan has 30 days to appeal Feder’s decision and will not be deported before then, Gillian Brigham, an Immigration and Custom Enforcement spokeswoman, said Friday.

A lawyer in the office of Khan’s attorney, Saher Macarius, said the office hadn’t received Thursday’s decision. A copy of the decision, which must be obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request, was not immediately available Friday.

In a May 20 hearing before Feder, Macarius asked the judge to allow Khan to voluntarily leave the country, while federal authorities asked Feder to keep Khan in the United States.

It was not immediately clear if the deportation order would affect the investigation into the bombing attempt. Calls to the Department of Justice weren’t immediately returned.

Shahzad, 30, of Bridgeport, Conn., is accused of leaving an SUV rigged with a car bomb in New York’s Times Square on May 1 during a scare that cleared the teeming area for 10 hours. The smoking SUV scattered pedestrians, but the bomb never exploded, and no one was hurt. Shahzad was arrested May 3 on a Dubai-bound plane at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Khan, a gas station attendant who lived in Watertown, said he had never heard of Shahzad before his arrest. But federal officials said Khan had Shahzad’s first name and number in his cell phone and written on an envelope found in his apartment. After the hearing, Macarius questioned whether the confiscated cell phone belonged to Khan.

Macarius has said that Khan came to Colorado last summer to marry an American soldier he had met overseas, but that she broke off the engagement. In November, Khan married a teacher in Cambridge.

During the hearing, an ICE agent said Khan offered the woman in Colorado $5,000 to marry him and became angry when she refused. The ICE agent also said the teacher told investigators her marriage to Khan was a fraud, and she had agreed to marry him because he paid her $1,500 to $2,000.

The attorney for Mohammad Shafiq Rahman of South Portland, who also is being held on immigration charges in connection with the failed Times Square attack, said Thursday that her client doesn’t know why he is being investigated for possible financial ties to the plot.

At a hearing before an immigration judge in Boston next week, Cynthia Arn plans to ask that Rahman, a computer expert, be freed on bond as the immigration case against him plays out. Rahman, who is married to a Maine woman, came to the United States on a work visa in 1999 and has been in the U.S. illegally since 2006, when his request for an extension was denied.

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