«FBI» arrested two leaders of the lobby Kashmiri in Washington
used money sent from the Pakistani military intelligence and Washington: Mohammed Ali Saleh was arrested yesterday police «FBI» two leaders of the lobby Kashmiri in Washington, which has been trying to beat the lobby India's strong Congress to resolve the Kashmir problem shared by both India and Pakistan. Police said the lobby Kashmiri relied on funds from the Embassy of Pakistan in Washington, by the Pakistani military intelligence, and his boss, Mr. Ghulam Nabi Fi, refused many times to record the Kashmiri Pakistani clubby foreigner, and denied that he received any money from Pakistan. In addition to fi (62 years old), police arrested Zuhair Ahmed (63). The couple resides in the state of Virginia, in the suburbs of Washington. The second is that he fled to Pakistan, and is being searched. They are carrying a U.S. citizen for more than twenty years. , the Justice Department said in a statement that the two men 'were trying to influence public opinion and the U.S. Congress illegally. Observers said in Washington that such charges, if proven, lead to five years in prison. The statement said the Ministry of Justice: «According to the minutes of the indictment, delivered Fi and the Kashmiri American Council four million dollars, at least, from the Pakistani government since the mid-nineties. And the Kashmiri American Council and one of the 'three centers currently run by Kashmiri Pakistani military and intelligence agency ISI. There is a second Council in London, and the third in Brussels. The statement added that Fi is accused of using the money sent by Pakistanis to influence politicians and their aides in Washington. said Assistant Director «FBI» on behalf of, James Makjankin: «foreign governments trying to influence the United States through the use of agents unspoken them threaten our national security». He added: «Act prohibits registered foreign agents of foreign governments from using agents to influence American politics, or law, without disclosing their identity completely, and any other information associated with them». however, said a spokesman for the Pakistani Embassy in Washington: «Fi is not a Pakistani national. And the government and embassy Allbeckstanatan not aware of two of the case involving ». Observers said in Washington that the indictment document shows that witnesses and spies who provided information to the police about the activity of American Kashmiris. And quoted the words of one of the witnesses Fi remained for twenty-five years working as directed by the ISI. And that contact بمندوبين to the Pakistani government for more than four thousand times since 2008. The agency said «FBI» French from her office in Washington that fi called her several times in recent months for meetings and to send reporters to cover topics such as: «the people of Kashmir Liberation of suffering that he does not deserve. Said Daniel Markey, an expert on South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York: «Each subject is detected the influence of illegal, and lasted for decades, here in Washington, with the fingerprints of Pakistani all of them», he added that the lobby Kashmiri «prominent relatively within a small group of people are following topic Kashmiri ». revealed to the Federal Election Commission, which brings together figures on donations to members of Congress and election campaigns, that Kashmiris have no less than fifty thousand dollars to members of the organizations before the presidential election in 2008, they gave $ 250 to the campaign of President Obama. Yesterday, the newspaper said «Washington Post» The official White House said that Obama will restore the amount, and said that the lobby of India giant, nor is estimated Kashmiris on his rival. and also donated Kashmiris ten thousand dollars to the National Committee of the Republican Party, and Congressman Richard Burton, most members of Congress In support of the Kashmiri cause, but he said yesterday that he did not know that the Kashmiri lobby 'breaking the law'. He said he would send the equivalent of Kashmiris donations to the American Boy Scouts Association donated it to them. Observers said in Washington that the goal of the lobby Kashmiri in Washington is a decision of the Congress to secure the autonomy of Kashmir, through a referendum to determine the Kashmiris their fate, although the United Nations was released fifty years ago a decision to achieve that, but it was rejected by India. , because the majority of Kashmiri Muslims and faint to vote overwhelmingly against it, although India accuses Pakistan, a long time ago, harboring and supporting what it calls a terrorist movement in Kashmir, but Pakistan has denied supporting fighters Kashmiris, although the two countries have fought three wars; two of them over Kashmir, and in 2004 began the process of Peace goes slowly, and froze the year 2008. , India finally pulled out of talks after attacks by Islamists in 2008 in Mumbai, the economic capital of India. India accuses organization «Lashkar» Islamic Pakistan-based her, too, has accused Pakistan's intelligence agencies, of being behind those attacks, which killed 166 people. added observers that the arrests and investigations may be linked to tension the last in the relations between the United States and Pakistan. The White House recently announced a freeze part of the military aid to Pakistan, allies in the military campaign against Islamic extremist groups, and against al Qaeda. The White House froze 800 million dollars in aid, more than a third of total aid provided by Washington to Pakistan annually, a billion dollars.