the young major who had been deputed to the isi made sure his wife and two kids were away in dubai ostensibly to enroll the elder son in a school there before he made his move it was during a routine call on his covert cia opposite number at the us embassy in islamabad to discuss security logistics that he took the bait after desultory talk about the megamillion mania in america power outages in pakistan and crazies in both countries he slipped in the offer the international school in dubai was good but a private school and a suburban home in mclean virginia outside washington dc for his family would be even better he sighed the lights were going out on pakistan literally collapsing gas and electricity supply a regressive education system that would stultify his childrens mind and an economy in tailspin bespoke bleak days ahead this was not the pakistani dream his father had migrated for from bhopal the american political attach who heard him quietly a cia undercover who had also worked in the justice department was not the bounty hunter you see in the movies although he was a big fan of spaghetti westerns his all time favorite being sergio leones for a few dollars more but he was trained to detect potential defectors and informants when the major invoked the suburban home the attach recognized instantly that the coin had dropped the 10 million bounty on hafiz saeed had worked from his files he knew the major had worked in the covert s wing of the isi that handled hafiz saeeds lashkaretaiba he picked up the phone to call in the station chief this scenario fictional for now is what the obama administration hopes will unfold in the coming days following its announcement of a 10 million bounty for information leading to arrest and conviction of saeed the primary objective though knowing he is unlikely to be ever convicted in pakistans scared and jihadisympathising courts appears to be to force him to shut down operations and drive him out of the terror business days after the bounty announcement washington appeared to have met with some success when the pakistan government made the laughable assertion that saeed was now helping deradicalize militants even as the terrorist whose toxic speeches preaching bloodletting is in the public domain added to his collection by threatening jihad against america in his friday prayers at the same time establishment figures across the board kept refuting that saeed was involved in terror activities bounty hunting in the modern sense is a patient game the rewards for justice rfj program was instituted by the us in the mid1990 s but some of the biggest catches through it have come from pakistan in 1995 a south african muslim named istiaque parker who lived across a guest house in islamabad where 1993 world trade center bomber ramzi yousef was staying panicked when he was drawn into a new