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| Why did US agencies take two decades to unearth Fai-ISI nexus? | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 23: The arrest of Ghulam Nabi Fai, head of the Kashmir American Council (KAC), that he had founded in the US 21 years ago, by the FBI on charge of having alleged links with the ISI, throws up two major questions. Did it take the US intelligence agencies about two decades to establish Fai's links with the ISI? Why did it take so much time for the intelligence agencies, including the CIA so much time to find out that the ISI had been funding Fai for influencing international opinion on Kashmir?
Secondly, where were the Indian intelligence agencies all these years when Fai has remained in constant touch with some journalists, academicians, political leaders and intellectuals in India, including Jammu and Kashmir? Why did not the intelligence agencies in India, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir, succeed in unearthing the links between the ISI and Ghulam Nabi Fai who had remained in touch with several separatist leaders? Why the Indian intelligence agencies failed to smell the rat when the KAC has been spending a fortune on organising seminars and conferences on Kashmir in the United States, London and Brussels?
Whether Fai was an agent of the ISI is yet to be established. But one thing has become quite clear that Islamabad and Pakistani agencies have developed proximity with the man from Kashmir. When Fai was arrested the Pakistan Foreign Office issued a statement appreciating Fai's contribution to the "cause of Jammu and Kashmir" though it questioned the slander campaign launched by the American Government.
Political analysts hold two opinions regarding the failure of the US intelligence agencies in unraveling the so called link between Fai and the ISI. They say that the US agencies may have been knowing about it but wanted to get more details about Fai's activities so that any case filed against him had not lacuna. They also explain that the US Government had reports about the plan of the ISI in influencing international opinion on Kashmir with the help of Fai and his KAC but wanted to strike at the right time.
Possibly Washington did not want to soil the friendly relations with Islamabad. Now that the relations have turned bitter after the killing of Osama bin Laden Fai has been arrested by the FBI. One report said that Washington's action is seen as a tit-for- tat on the plea that the US Government has felt sore over the refusal of the ISI in releasing Dr Shakil Afridi who is said to have helped the CIA in hunting Osama in Abbottabad.
Washington had requested Islamabad for releasing Afridi but was told by Pakistan that it was acting against its citizen who had worked for a foreign spy agency.
Another report said that Delhi knew that the conferences and seminars organised, from time to time, by Fai in the USA and other countries were being bankrolled by the Pakistan Government. If it is true why did not the intelligence agencies held a further probe? Or why did not New Delhi convey its fears to Washington on the activities of Ghulam Nabi Fai? If Delhi knew about Fai being used by the ISI, why did it issue valid travel documents to the Indian journalists, academicians and some separatists, including Molvi Umar Farooq, for attending those conferences? These are some of the questions meriting an answer from Delhi.
Now that Washington has unraveled alleged links between Fai and the ISI the Government agencies in New Delhi and some mainstream political leaders have started pointing fingers towards those academicians and journalists who had not only attended some seminars and conferences organised by Fai but had also addressed those conferences.
Prior the Fai's arrest Fai was seen as one of the many intellectuals and influential Indian origin US citizen who has been trying to build opinion in favour granting right of self-determination to the people of Jammu and Kashmir. It was neither the job of the Indian intellectuals and journalists to find about the antecedents of Fai nor was it practical and possible for them to establish that Fai was an ISI man.
It was the duty of the Government of India and its intelligence agencies either to inform those invited to the conferences organised by Fai that such meetings were actually being arranged by the ISI or they should not have been given permission to attend those seminars. If they do it will be like a bad artisan quarreling with his tools. |
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