US-based Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, pleaded guilty to federal charges of spying for the Pakistani agency the ISI and illegally lobbying Congress to influence the American policy on Kashmir.

Fai, also acknowledged secretly receiving money from the ISI through clandestine routes and causing huge revenue losses to the US government.

Pleading before the US Eastern District Court of Virginia, Fai, head of the Kashmiri American Council agreed to the charges of the federal prosecutors that he received at least 3.5 million US dollars from the ISI between 1990 to 2011 and was in direct contact with ISI officials including the head of its security directorate.

Fai was arrested on spying charges on July the 19th and then put under house arrest.

Our noted journalist Rahul Jalali opines that Fai's confession has exposed nefarious activities of ISI