This was disclosed by the FBI in documents filed in a court in Alexandria, where 62-year-old Fai, a US citizen, was produced soon after his arrest from his home in Fairfax, Virginia, yesterday.
Fai, Director of the Kashmiri American Council (KAC) -- a Washington-based group that lobbies for "self-determination" for Kashmir, faces up to five years in prison if proved guilty. His next court hearing is scheduled for tomorrow. Identifying Fai's four handlers in ISI, the FBI made public their phone numbers and emails addresses.
Fai's alleged handlers in Pakistan were identified as Abdullah; Javeed Aziz Khan aka 'Rathore'; Abdullah aka 'Nizami Mir'; and Touqeer Mehmood Butt aka Sohail Mahmood, who goes by the nickname 'Mir'. Since June 2008, Fai contacted them more than 4,000 times till his arrest. Between 2006 and early 2011, Javeed Aziz Khan contacted Fai for nearly 2,000 times, the FBI said in a 43-page affidavit.
It said Brigadier Abdullah was the ISI officer responsible for handling Kashmir affairs. Fai acted at the direction of his handlers from ISI, court documents said.