| War on Terror | |
| 23 Jul 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Dr. Fai’s Arrest: A Turning Point in US Policy on Terror | |
By Shekhar Gupta
Jul 23 2011
First the disclaimer: no, I did not attend any of Ghulam Nabi Fai’s now infamous conferences. Then the disclosure: of course, I knew him. He was a constant presence on the South Asian conference circuit in Washington, and specially sought out Indian speakers. An amiable sounding fellow carrying a bunch of pamphlets and calling cards, both of which he dispensed with a generous smile, laced in humility and warmth. But all of it, the injured air of Kashmiri victimhood, and Americanised English would not fool you about who he exactly was, and what precisely he was after. He was a Pakistani lobbyist for “their” Kashmir cause, leading a very cleverly constructed over ground support base for the malevolent movement that was picking strength in the early nineties. You would have to be utterly nuts, delusional or smoking some awful prohibited substance to not figure this out. Would you have known he was funded by the ISI? Again, you had to be from another planet to believe anything else, although, two decades back, the CIA was considered about as hostile to India as the ISI and I do remember one of the most able members of our almost all-woman diplomatic team in DC elbow me in my side at one of these conferences to whisper, dekha, yeh inki company ke logon ki sewa mein hai (see, he serves their “company” here). Company was the usual euphemism for CIA. In DC those days, CIA would look more like the usual suspect.
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