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‘Steele Dossier’ law firm peddles misinformation for JamaatIslami linked charity
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‘Steele Dossier’ law firm peddles misinformation for JamaatIslami linked charity

India has been on the hot-seat ever since it revoked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, and the subsequent security measures taken to fight jihadi groups.Members of Congress, prominent media outlets, and even senior State Department officials are suddenly tasked with trying to understand complicated situations with little or no background in the history or politics of South Asia.This is a situation ripe for abuse by rivals who would seek to use this lack of information to manipulate policymakers through disinformation.Last year, a US Congressional hearing on Kashmir went poorly for India. This is in significant part due to the fact that US franchises of Jamaat-e-Islami (recently banned in Kashmir for working with terrorist groups), mainly the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a...