[snip] ...She was also considered close to a US-based Kashmiri leader Syed Ghulam Mohammad Fai who was arrested by the FBI in July 2011 for concealing the transfer of $3.5 million from Pakistan to fund his lobbying efforts and influence the US government on the Kashmir conflict. In March 2012, Fai was sentenced to two years imprisonment by a US court for conspiracy to defraud the US by concealing the transfer of funding from a Pakistani intelligence agency for his illegal lobbying efforts on Jammu & Kashmir.
Pakistani establishment circles also point out the pertinent fact that Robin Raphel also used to maintain close ties with the chief of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Yasin Malik. Besides, she was also considered close to the most prominent face of the Hurriyat Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.
Before being appointed the US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia by President Bill Clinton, Raphel was serving in the US Embassy in New Delhi. It is a well known fact that in 2005, Raphel accompanied then US Deputy Chief of Mission in Delhi for a meeting with the Indian government and tried to persuade the then Indian government to talk to Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. [/snip] -——FBI probe against Raphel a bad omen for Pakistan , Amir Mir
Sunday, November 09, 2014 ; From Print Edition
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