APROPOS the write-up ‘The flamboyant Khan from Wall Street’ (May 19) by Assad Farooq and Zain Siddiqi.

When it comes to detecting some heinous crime by our citizens, it is always some foreign agency that provides the lead.

To begin with, take the case of money laundering by Khanani and Kalia International. It was the US treasury department which detected that billions of dollars were laundered globally by the largest and most sophisticated exchange company, and it was the US justice department that sentenced Altaf Khanani.

Similarly, the Axact case was first reported by The New York Times and again it was the US justice department that prosecuted Umair Hamid.

The list continues. In the case of Sadat Amin from Sargodha who was arrested for producing around 65,000 child pornographic videos and distributing them, the tip-off for tracing him was provided by the Norwegian government.

Coming to cricket spot-fixing, intelligence was provided by the British National Crime Wing.

The PIA plane case at Heathrow airport, too, was claimed by the BNCA. And now we have the story about ‘The flamboyant Khan’. Where are the more than half a dozen intelligent agencies we have?

Muhammad K. Sufi
Islamabad

Published in Dawn, May 23rd, 2017