US court sentences Ghulam Nabi Fai to 2 yrs in jail - Hindustan Times
A US court on Friday sentenced Kashmiri separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai to 24 months in jail. Fai's sentencing to be followed by three years of supervised release. According to a report, Fai to surrender after June 25 graduation of his daughter. Fai had pleaded guilty on December 7 to
being a paid lobbyist for Pakistan — handled by its intelligence service the ISI — without declaring himself to the US government as required.
According to a report,
he had received over $ 400 million from the ISI over 15 years, through a Pakistani man who was found dead in unclear circumstance within weeks of his arrest.
Fai headed an outfit called Kashmiri American Council, which lobbied US government, lawmakers and opinion-makers on Kashmir, taking a line laid out for him by his ISI handlers.
But Fai claimed in his statement that he was not taking instructions from Pakistan. In fact, he claimed he was not taking orders from Delhi