Fai funds trail to J&K militants being probed
Acting on specific information that controversial ISI operative Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai was giving financial assistance to militant outfits in Kashmir, Indian intelligence agencies have launched a massive probe to unearth the financial trail. Fai, a covert ISI operative, was arrested by America’s FBI some time back and is now in a US jail.
Highly-placed intelligence sources said there was credible information that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence was not just using Fai to discredit India on the Kashmir issue in global forums, but also funding militant outfits through him. The intelligence agencies are sifting through a series of complex financial transactions between India and the United States over the past decade where large amounts of funds were transferred to “suspect accounts”.
It is suspected that most of this money came in over the past 10 years and went to the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Hizbul Mujahideen.
A source said the Research and Analysis Wing, India’s external intelligence agency, had established that Fai, at the ISI’s behest, used both banking channels and the hawala route to pump money into Kashmir militancy. The bank accounts, sources said, were opened with fake identities and operated by “overground” activists of militant outfits.
It is learnt that Fai, before leaving India, had worked for the Jamaat-e-Islami in Kashmir, and continued to keep links with various Kashmir contacts even after floating his Kashmiri American Council in the United States.
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