Як стверджує видання, Pakistani geospatial firm Business System International Pvt Ltd purchased satellite images from a Colorado company and illegally sold them to the Pakistani government. The company and its owner, Obaidullah Said, also carried out financial transactions and exchanged e-mails with high-ranking officials and agencies, directly involved in Pakistan's nuclear weapons program.
ThePrint states, що зв’язок Сайєда з Комісією з атомної енергії Пакистану (PAEC) та Національним комплексом розвитку (NDC), аерокосмічним та оборонним агентством Міністерства оборони Пакистану, був виявлений Службою розслідування внутрішньої безпеки (HIS) уряду США та посилається на скаргу, подану HSI до судді-магістрата США М. Девіда Вайсмана 15 September 2020 year.
Colorado is a hub for satellite and geospatial companies. Maxar Technologies is one of the largest. The publication claims, that Maxar was announcing BSI Pakistan as its partner, у той час коли кримінальна справа проти BSI вже розглядалася в судах США.
Речник Maxar Technologies заперечив, що замовлення на супутникові знімки були доступні компанії BSI. However, hours after ThePrint report was published, the company was removed from the Maxar partner page. In addition, the publication claims, that a Pakistani-American businessman from Northbrook, suburbs of Illinois, It was not only PAEC that Saeed had to deal with, but also with the highest government bodies and officials of Pakistan.
Maxar Technologies has yet to respond to ThePrint's inquiries on the matter, whether she carried out a BSI background check, before enrolling a company with a history of federal crimes among its partners and did not confirm, has BSI officially removed Pakistan from the partner list.
In return, intelligence and geospatial data experts have expressed doubts about the media reports, which link a satellite image of an American commercial company to the recent terrorist attack in Pahalgam. Maxar Technologies strongly denies these claims, clarifying, that the firm in question had not ordered any recent satellite images of the area.