Pakistan has protested the arrest of a Kashmiri-born man in the
United States on charges he was working for Pakistan's spy agency to
lobby in Washington for the cause of Kashmiri independence.
Thursday's
government statement says the arrest of Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai of the
Kashmiri American Council was an attempt to "defame the just cause of
the Kashmiri people."
It did not address the accusation that he was an unregistered agent for Pakistan's spy agency.
Prosecutors
say Fai worked to influence Congress and to develop contacts at the
White House and State Department, under the supervision of a senior
member of Pakistan's spy agency. He was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday
and is due in federal court in Virginia for a detention hearing later
Thursday. AP
