Separatist Kashmiri leader, Ghulam Nabi Fai, who according to the FBI was a paid agent of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan, had roped in several eminent Indian journalists and intellectuals during his more than two decades of high-profile operations. Kashmir-born and educated at the Aligarh Muslim University, Fai even managed get them in the drafting committee of his annual event International Kashmir Peace Conference. Fai, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) from his house in Fairfax in Virginia, an affluent suburb of Washington DC, on charges of receiving hundreds and thousands of dollars from the ISI and using them for lobbying at the Capitol Hill and holding seminars and conferences. According to the 43-page FBI affidavit submitted to a US court, the ISI not only funded his Kashmir American Council (KAC), which was run from its headquartered in Washington, but also dictated his speeches, determined who was to be invited to the conferences and even the results.