Srinagar, Nov. 11 -- Jammu and Kashmir police have launched a crackdown on the alleged separatist network of Ghulam Nabi Fai in Kashmir. Fai is currently living in the US. Officials said that police in central Kashmir's Budgam today carried out a massive crackdown on the network of Fai, a native of Wadwan Budgam and presently residing in the United States of America. A police spokesperson said that multiple searches were conducted by Budgam police to target his network. "Dr Fai is involved in FIR No. 46/2020 under Sections 10, 13 and 39 of the ULA(P) Act and Section 66 of the IT Act at Budgam Police Station. The court of NIA special judge, Budgam, has already declared him a proclaimed offender on April 30, 2025, in connection with the said case. Proceedings of attachment of his property are also being carried out by Budgam Police," the spokesperson said. Fai heads the Washington-based Kashmiri American Council (KAC), which the police said is backed by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and is known for propagating Pakistan's narrative on Kashmir. " In a recent interview with a Turkey-based TV channel, Dr Fai made statements supporting the banned organisation JKLF (Y), declared unlawful vide government notification SO 1403(E) Dated March 22, 2019," the statement said. During the operation, multiple houses were searched and several individuals were detained for questioning. Fai, executive director of Kashmiri American Council, was charged and sentenced in 2012-13 in US for "conspiring to act as Pakistani agents in the United States without registering as foreign agents". An FBI affidavit filed in court in 2011 had said Fai and the group received "several million dollars from Pakistan and its military spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency, since the mid-1990s in an effort to influence the US government's position on Kashmir". Fai had pleaded guilty forlobbying. The police spokesperson said that Budgam Police has also intensified its crackdown on J&K Nationals operating from Pakistan/Pak-Occupied Kashmir (JKNOPs) and SIM card vendors allegedly facilitating terror communications. "Budgam police reiterates its commitment to dismantling the terror support infrastructure and ensuring lasting peace, security and stabilityin the district," read the statement. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested him on June 19. He faces five years in jail for the first count and three for the second. Judge Liam O'Grady set his sentencing for March 9. Last week, a Pakistani man had pleaded guilty to making a jihadi promotional video for the Pakistan's Lashkar-i-Tayyeba, which carried out Mumbai attack in 2008. Fai, a Kashmiri by birth, ran an organisation here in Washington - Kashmiri American Council - to lobby the US on Jammu and Kashmir, essentially laying out the Pakistani line. He had also contributed generously to some US lawmakers who later admitted to taking the money but said they didn't know the back story. The FBI also absolved them of any wrongdoing....