American Diplomat Committed Murder say Pakistani Police

[khushal]

Pakistani police said earlier today that Raymond Davis, the detained American diplomat who says the two Pakistanis he shot and killed last month in Lahore were trying to rob him, committed "cold-blooded murder," rejecting his claims of self-defense, and a lower court in Lahore extended his detention for another two weeks (AP, AFP, ET, Post, NYT, WSJ). The U.S. maintains, and Pakistani officials reportedly agree in private, that Davis has diplomatic immunity, though Pakistani officials "appear unable or unwilling to enforce the protocol" (NYT). Sources tell the Daily Telegraph that Davis was in telephone contact with militants affiliated with Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in South Waziristan, and Pakistani officials have said the men who were shot were intelligence agents tailing him because they suspected him of spying (Tel, ABC).

ABC reports that national security advisor Tom Donilon told Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S., Husain Haqqani, that "the U.S. will kick Haqqani out of the U.S., close U.S. consulates in Pakistan, and cancel an upcoming visit" by Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari to Washington if Davis were not released by Friday, which was denied by both Amb. Haqqani and the U.S. embassy in Islamabad (ABC, Dawn). U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and CIA chief Leon Panetta have reportedly called Zardari and Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the head of Pakistan's intelligence services the ISI, to warn that Davis's continued detention "threatened the foundations of the strategic relationship between the two countries" (NYT).

[khushal]

pakistani news is reporting that he was in contact with the TTP
http://www.islamabadglobe.com/?p=31599

[Admin Khan]

Obviously he will be released. Do you honestly think Pakistan is capable of challenging American policy? Pakistan lives off American aid, like it's counterparts. Without American aid, Pakistan will be on the verge of collapsing near instantaneously!

[graveyardofempires]

pakistani news is reporting that he was in contact with the TTP
http://www.islamabadglobe.com/?p=31599

shameless pakistani extsblishment want everything to be blamed on TTP
and offcourse dumbed down pakis will believe anything.

[Shehbaz Khan]

Many say he is not having a diplomat visa or anything like passport etc. One thing is clear very clear that he for sure is not a diplomat else the police could have never arrested him. Now coming to the point whether Pakistani govt can punish him. There is a big question mark, according to me the current rulers CANNOT. Currently we also hear that Shah Mehmood Qureshi the former, foreign minister was told to go home when he said that he won't protect this white guy.

So, according to me in the end this guy will be given a clean chit .. and he will return back to US.

Admin Khana,
I agree, to what you said.
What do you think .. Pakistan's friendship is vital for America or Pakistan requires their aid more? Laka zama che koma raye da nu da haghi mutabiq if America stops aiding Pakistan it will not affect the common man that much. On the other hand if Pakistan stops supporting US for almost one year nu bya? .. !!
Lekin Hum nahe samjhengay

[graveyardofempires]

Many say he is not having a diplomat visa or anything like passport etc. One thing is clear very clear that he for sure is not a diplomat else the police could have never arrested him. Now coming to the point whether Pakistani govt can punish him. There is a big question mark, according to me the current rulers CANNOT. Currently we also hear that Shah Mehmood Qureshi the former, foreign minister was told to go home when he said that he won't protect this white guy.

So, according to me in the end this guy will be given a clean chit .. and he will return back to US.

Admin Khana,
I agree, to what you said.
What do you think .. Pakistan's friendship is vital for America or Pakistan requires their aid more? Laka zama che koma raye da nu da haghi mutabiq if America stops aiding Pakistan it will not affect the common man that much. On the other hand if Pakistan stops supporting US for almost one year nu bya? .. !!
Lekin Hum nahe samjhengay

so than you admit to be a a slave of the slaves of America and co.
if you guys dont kill pashtuns or judge an american murderer you will not have any more food to eat.

[khushal]

GOE, nobody needs to call anyone slave here.

But it looks like your predictions are becoming reality. Pakistan starts to pave the way for Davis Release
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/ray-da...ry?id=12910728

[graveyardofempires]

so to put this in a perspective.

pakistanis claim that america is doing drone attacks on themselves without pakis.
davis have been arrested now the drone attacks stopped.
pakis are frustrated that drone attacks stopped,noe they want to release the american so they can have the drone attacks again.

[graveyardofempires]

GOE, nobody needs to call anyone slave here.

But it looks like your predictions are becoming reality. Pakistan starts to pave the way for Davis Release
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/ray-da...ry?id=12910728

nobody needs to be a slave,everybody should free forever.

[Catya Sher]

Finally, the obvious solution,
which I suggested from the VERY FIRST post on this topic !

I pray they do that : it's the only
FACE-SAVING WAY OUT FOR BOTH.

There's some tussle going on in the Pakistan establishment: some are indignant
that this guy should be handed over scot=free, where others are obedient lackeys
and are pushing for Davis to be released with no charges.

You guys haven't noticed in the original post what I see as a key revelation.
That the two were actually TAILING HIM for CID or whatever agency.

That makes it MORE evil, because if this is true, he did this
very deliberately to get them off his track.

[Catya Sher]

I know what you mean, that it's unfair.
I agree !
Aafia Siddiqui should have been returned to Pakistan without ANY deal at all.
She had lost her sense of reason and was no threat to anyone anywhere.
She should have been handed over to the care of her sister and family
as a goodwill gesture.

But goodwill toward this supposed ally Pakistan is never a card in the US's deck - it's ruled out automatically.

So that's why I think that a practical compromise which has a faint chance of working would be a swap like this.

I see it as only third choice or so.
Better than nothing at all to be traded.

There was the third Pakistani run over by the US Consulate SUV too ---
Thus, part of the package should be a high compensation should be paid to the survivors of all 3 men.

[Catya Sher]

I fear that "that'll be the day" - !

PS - look how mean his face appears.

[khushal]

It looks like john kerry is going to pakistan
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/201...-tensions.html

[khushal]

Pakistan's outgoing foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, has hinted that he was dropped from the new cabinet because he opposed American pressure to release detained American embassy employee Raymond Davis. At a farewell reception held at the foreign office on Saturday evening, Qureshi said that he did not bow to pressure from various quarters to declare the detained American technician as a diplomat.

"He is not a diplomat and I resisted pressure to have him declared as such," said Qureshi, adding "after my refusal the interior minister went on record as saying Raymond was a diplomat." He said he had conveyed his opinion to US State Secretary Hillary Clinton on January 28. Qureshi said that his opinion on the Davis issue cost him his job in the federal cabinet. He said that he was offered another portfolio but he turned down the offer.

[Catya Sher]

I applaud his courage in staying with the truth.
May Allah [swt] give him a better reward than any cabinet portfolio, if
he deserves that reward.