Who is ghulam nabi fai

However, the matter was forgotten. A Public Safety Act PSA warrant issued against him by the then District Magistrate in Badgam in for his involvement in anti-national activities is still pending against him in police records. The importance of people like Fai for Pakistan when it comes to Kashmir can be gauged from an October report prepared by a member committee of the Pakistan Senate which recommended constitution of a Media Coordination Committee MCC , which would have journalists plus representatives of the Foreign Office, Ministry of Information, Parliament and intelligence to prepare counter-propaganda campaign against India and to design and promote a media strategy for continually highlighting the Kashmir issue.

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Company Corporate Trends. Defence National International Industry. International UAE. Saudi Arabia. US Elections World News. Masood Hussain. Rate Story. Font Size Abc Small. Abc Medium. One of the two is year-old Ghulam Nabi Fai, who denies the charges. The bespectacled small man in suit and tie sitting behind the desk looked a bit older than the one in blown-up pictures of him with Bill Clinton and George W Bush hanging on the wall.

In one such photo he stood confidently between his wife and Hillary Clinton. The pictures clearly indicated the man was well-connected. Mr Fai had aged since he posed for these pictures with America's distinguished personalities. But his resolve to work for the "self-determination" of the state of Jammu and Kashmir had not ebbed. The large two-room office on 16th Street in Dupont Circle in Washington DC was well-appointed and not far from the White House and the Congress, where he claimed to have many friends.

A Republican die-hard, he hoped for the demise of Barack Obama in the next presidential election. Sitting in his office, he said he said he was busy organising a three-day conference in DC, to which he had invited academics, human rights activists, journalists and those who supported the Kashmiris' cause for self-determination. There was no way one could have predicted his arrest eight months later. He seemed to be friends with the high and mighty of US politics, on both sides of the party divide.

During the conference, several high-profile Republican congressmen expressed their support for Dr Fai's work on the Kashmir issue. He introduced me to some of these congressmen during the conference. And yet his arrest has not come as a huge surprise to some in the US. At the conference, I heard whispered voices question who was paying for the big expenses incurred. Some suggested he was working for the Pakistani government and money was not an issue for him.