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| Delhi should learn from US & act against K separatists | | Conviction Of Fai | | Rustam
JAMMU, Apr 3: Kashmiri separatists and their supporters in the Kashmir Bar Association and the so-called Kashmiri civil society are feeling greatly upset these days. The reason is that the US-based ISI agent of Kashmiri origin Ghulam Nabi Fai has been pronounced guilty by an American court. Fai was on last Friday sentenced to two years in jail by a court in Alexandria, Virginia, US. The judgment has further said that his two years imprisonment would be followed by "three years of supervised release". Why did the said US court pronounced him guilty and order imprisonment? Why because he was "illegally working" for the Pakistani spy agency, Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), to influence American policy on Jammu and Kashmir. Judge Liam O'Grady, who delivered the judgment, also ordered Fai "not to maintain any contact with the officials and agents of the Government of Pakistan and the ISI".
Fai was, it bears recalling, arrested by the American spy agency Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on July 19 last year and had subsequently pleaded guilty before the court to the charges of being a paid agent of the ISI. Fai, who was represented by Nina Ginsberg in the court, said he would self- surrender. Fai had set up an organization, Kashmiri American Council, in the US to promote the cause of Kashmiri secessionists.
"Sentencing is necessary…I do not think you are ready to believe that by your acts you did a great harm to the US, you ignored that even after FBI (read American spy agency Federal Bureau of Investigation) brought this to your notice…You participated in a conspiracy to defraud the US and completely deceive the IRS. You knew Pakistan and the ISI was paying you in a manner because your actions would be consistent with theirs and you would represent their voice and you were willing to do so; You were willing to defraud the IRS, willing to be allowed being given money by the Straw Donors to fund the Kashmir American Council -- to cover up the source of your funding and to engage with the Pakistani intelligence agency," judge O'Grady said after listening to both sides and also for a few minutes Fai himself.
Fai had, it needs to emphasized, submitted the names of as many as 53 individuals from Pakistan, India and the US in his support and all of them had urged the District Judge Liam O'Grady to give the Kashmiri separatist a "lighter sentence". Prominent, among those who had written support letters, included Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi; APHC (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq; and Maoist terrorist Gautam Navlakha, who masquerades as a human rights activist. The judge did not take into consideration any of the support letters and, instead, upheld the rule of law.
The judgment of Liam O'Grady could be construed as a major development in the sense that the US court took to task Fai for his involvement in the ISI-sponsored anti-India activities in America. However, far more significant perhaps was the claim made by Attorney Neil H MacBride before the US court in Alexandria, ahead of the scheduled sentencing of Fai, that "separatist Kashmiri leader and chairman of the Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umer Farooq is supported and controlled by the ISI".
Will New Delhi learn from US and initiate legal proceedings against the ISI agents in Kashmir and elsewhere in the country like the US took against Fai who worked on behalf of Pakistan to influence the American policy on Jammu and Kashmir? It must imitate the US and cleanse Kashmir of all the ISI agents at whatever cost. The people of Kashmir also need to ponder over what the Attorney said about the Mirwaiz who masquerade as a freedom fighter but promotes the Pakistani cause at the cost of Kashmir. |
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