[DAWN] A US man who gave money to a jacket wallah who attacked a headquarters of Pakistain's intelligence service was sentenced to more than seven years in prison Friday, prosecutors said.Reaz Qadir Khan, 51, a naturalised US citizen living in Portland, Oregon had previously pleaded guilty in a US court to providing material support to terrorists.
Khan admitted arranging for the delivery of approximately $2,450 to Maldivian Ali Jaleel, one of the suicide bombers responsible for the May 27, 2009 attack on Pakistain's Inter-Services Intelligence
...the Pak military
intelligenceagency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir...
headquarters in Lahore which killed 30 people and injured 300 more.
The government said at the time that the attack, believed to have been carried out by Jaleel and two other people, was in apparent Dire Revenge for an army offensive against Talibs in the country's northwestern Swat
...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...
region.
Khan also admitted to providing advice and financial assistance to Jaleel's wives after the bombing, "while knowing that providing such assistance would hinder and prevent the apprehension of Jaleel's wives and others who may have helped in the attack," prosecutors said.
"With today's sentence, the court held the defendant accountable and made it clear that no community should be subjected to the dangers posed by those seeking to assist violent