Within hours of the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal by Enforcement Directorate (ED) under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) of 2002, Bangladeshi \u201cjournalist\u201d and an asset of Pakistani spy agency Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) received a call from a covert ISI officer in New York City where ISI man said, \u201cCan you raise the issue of Kejriwal\u2019s arrest with Miller and others?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a delighted voice Mushfiqul Fazal Ansarey said he will. According to an intelligence source, Ansarey is seen almost regularly meeting Pakistan embassy\u2019s staff, particularly Muhammad Asim Raza while he also meets others such as Muhammad Taqi and Jamal Nasir. During some of these discreet meetings, Pakistanis pass envelops to Mushfiqul, which possibly is the monthly stipend his receives from ISI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No one is yet asking why Pakistani ISI became concerned at the arrest of Kejriwal and if there have been secret connections between him and the Pakistani spy agency. But it is evidently proved \u2013 Islamabad wanted to play dirty centering the arrest of Kejriwal and use it in wrongly defaming Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by bringing-up the matter in the State Department and the United Nations. In this mission of ISI, Mushfiqul Fazal Ansarey has played a vital role, while according to the source \u2013 he had received encouragement also from Tarique Rahman, a convicted terrorist on the run and acting chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) \u2013 a Tier-III terrorist organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Arvind Kejriwal, a controversial politician is currently under custody. Bail under PMLA is only possible once the accused must prove in the court that the charges are baseless. In Kejriwal\u2019s case, it is impossible as ED has gathered substantial evidence before arresting him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mushfiqul Fazal Ansarey is wanted by Bangladeshi courts and law enforcement agencies in a number of criminal cases, while he too is on the run since 2007. In the United States he succeeded in getting press accreditation cards from the White House, State Department and the United Nations by falsely proclaiming as the \u201cUS Correspondent\u201d of his website named ‘Just News’. In his application for press accreditation cards, Ansarey made the false claim of \u201cJust News\u201d being based in Bangladesh, although in reality, there is no existence of ‘Just News’ in Bangladesh. Instead, this website is funded by BNP while Ansarey is shown as its editor and publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It may be mentioned here that, on March 27, 2024, following comment of US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller who responded to question from Mushfiqul Fazal Ansarey, a member of Al Qaeda-connected ultra-Islamist Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), India summoned US diplomat protesting<\/a> Miller\u2019s comment on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal\u2019s arrest and freezing of opposition Congress party\u2019s bank accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In response<\/a>, US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said, \u201cWe continue to follow these actions closely, including the arrest of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal. We are also aware of the Congress party\u2019s allegations that tax authorities have frozen some of their bank accounts in a manner that will make it challenging to effectively campaign in the upcoming elections. And we encourage fair, transparent and timely legal processes for each of these issues. With respect to your first question, I\u2019m not going to talk about any private diplomatic conversations, but of course, what we have said publicly is what I just said from here, that we encourage fair, transparent, timely legal processes. We don\u2019t think anyone should object to that\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n