US Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s new top campaign aide Paul Manafort lobbied for a Washington-based group that has been charged for operating as a front for Pakistan’s powerful spy agency ISI,
US Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s new top campaign aide Paul Manafort lobbied for a Washington-based group that has been charged for operating as a front for Pakistan’s powerful spy agency ISI, a media report said on Tuesday.
The company of Paul Manafort, who was recently hired for Mr Trump’s campaign as its convention manager, allegedly received $700,000 from the Kashmiri American Council (KAC) between 1990 and 1995, Yahoo News reported.
The money was received by Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly, which was Manafort’s lobbying firm.
Ghulam Nabi Fai, the head of KAC, was sentenced by a US court for two years of imprisonment on charges of receiving money from ISI and working on its behalf.
The fund $700,000 was part of the $4 million given by ISI to KAC, as alleged by federal prosecutors. The ISI has denied the allegations. The US government never charged Manafort, who was registered as a lobbyist.
Manafort, during a trip to Islamabad in 1994, presented plans to influence Congress to back Pakistan’s case for Kashmir plebiscite, it said.
