According to the publication, 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, that Syed's connection with the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) and the National Development Complex (NDC), by the Aerospace and Defense Agency of the Ministry of Defense of Pakistan, was discovered by the Homeland Security Investigations Service (HIS) of the US government and refers to the complaint, submitted by HSI to US Magistrate Judge M. David Weissman 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, while the criminal case against BSI was already pending in the US courts.
A spokesman for Maxar Technologies denied this, that orders for satellite imagery were available to 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.