{"id":90183,"date":"2025-05-10T13:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T13:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/90183\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T13:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T13:45:11","slug":"bsi-pakistan-no-longer-on-maxar-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/90183\/","title":{"rendered":"BSI Pakistan no longer on Maxar site"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Delhi:<\/b> Pakistani geospatial firm Business Systems International Pvt Ltd (BSI) is no longer listed as a partner on the website of US satellite company Maxar Technologies. This change came hours after ThePrint published an exclusive report<\/a> revealing that Maxar had been receiving orders for high-resolution satellite images of Pahalgam, ostensibly since June last year, when the Pakistani firm was onboarded as a partner. The orders peaked in February\u2014two months before the 22 April terror attack.<\/p>\n

Crucially, US authorities had earlier indicted BSI owner Obaidullah Syed for illegally exporting computer equipment and software solutions to Pakistani government agencies.<\/p>\n

Maxar provides high-resolution satellite imagery to government bodies across the world, including India\u2019s Ministry of Defence and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).<\/p>\n

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While there is no evidence directly linking BSI to the Pahalgam image orders, Maxar\u2019s \u2018Find a Partner\u2019 page no longer listed BSI shortly after ThePrint\u2019s story was published.<\/p>\n

BSI Pakistan had appeared as a partner on Maxar\u2019s portal until 9 May, as shown in screenshots taken by ThePrint during its investigation. However, on Saturday\u2014a day after the story was published\u2014Maxar responded to ThePrint\u2019s email sent on 6 May, claiming that the Pahalgam orders did not come from BSI.<\/p>\n

\u201cBSI has not placed any tasking orders with Maxar of Pahalgam or the surrounding areas this year, nor have they ordered any of the imagery we currently have of those areas through our imagery archive,\u201d Tomi Maxted, Maxar\u2019s head of corporate and product communications, wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\"\"Maxar website before ThePrint story was published
\n\"\"Maxar website after ThePrint story was published\n<\/p>\n

Significantly, hours after this email response, Maxar quietly removed BSI from its website. The Pakistani firm no longer appears as a listed partner.<\/p>\n

ThePrint also sent a detailed questionnaire to Maxar\u2014asking, among other things, whether BSI had been officially delisted\u2014but did not receive a response by the time of publication.<\/p>\n

Also read: <\/strong>Orders for Pahalgam satellite images from US firm peaked two months before attack<\/a><\/p>\n

Maxar and BSI<\/b><\/p>\n

Maxar Technologies has over 120 private partners worldwide, including at least 11 Indian companies such as Antrix Corporation Ltd, CYRAN AI Solutions, Lepton Software, and Satpalda Geospatial Services. These partners help develop products, sell services, and represent Maxar in their respective regions.<\/p>\n

BSI Pakistan was enlisted as a Maxar partner in 2023. ThePrint found that satellite image orders for Pahalgam began appearing on Maxar\u2019s portal just months after BSI was brought on board.<\/p>\n

After the story was published on 9 May, Maxar stated that BSI had not \u201ctasked\u201d the Pahalgam orders. However, it did not clarify why the Pakistani firm had been onboarded in the first place despite its owner\u2019s criminal record. Nor did the company respond to questions about whether a background check was conducted.<\/p>\n

BSI owner Obaidullah Syed, a Pakistani-American businessman, was sentenced by a US federal court in 2022 to one year in prison for illegally exporting high-performance computer equipment to the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)\u2014the agency responsible for designing and testing high explosives and nuclear weapon components, as well as developing solid-fuelled ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n

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