MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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ISLAMABAD: An Additional Sessions judge Wednesday set free CIA contractor Raymond Davis, who killed two Pakistanis on a busy road in Lahore, after payment of blood money (Diyat) in accordance with Sharia law of Pakistan, sources said.
Talking to Geo News, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said the court released Raymond Davis after the family members of the murdered men appeared in the court and pardoned the US National after an agreement was reached between the two sides. “He has been released from jail and now it is up to him to leave the country whenever he wants,” the Minister added.
Comments:
i'm feeling ashamed to be pakistani...like all other bad moments in it is one of the biggest
-kashif ali Pakistan
I have no doubt that the survivors were forced to compromise on this issue, BOTH by the Americans AND the overly corrupt Pakistani politicians. SAD SAD day for Pakistan!
-Bilal Burki Pakistan
i am sceptical for now , i can beleive what i hear , its too early to say anything .... we should be expecting a revolution if this is true
-Bahram Durrani Pakistan
Comments
I forgot to put on the old thread where we were discussing this the other day that I strongly suspect the victims were working for the ISI (and have read as much in some Pakistani sources in the past, though things like that can never be trusted.) It fits with him being a big cheese and risking putting himself in the spot he ended up being in by doing what he did. It also fits with this news today. The Pakistanis really didn't want to get into all of that in a trial, but they also needed to attend to public outrage by making a show about it all for an extended length of time.
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/16/2011 - 10:34pm
That's been my assumption from the start, appraiser -- that these guys were ISI "handlers" or liaisons to Taliban groups or leaders. It puzzles me that the CIA may have thought it worth the risk to carry out direct hits on them, since that would hardly make a dent in the ISI's overall strategy of double-dealing. President Zardari was really keen to recognize the bogus claim of diplomatic immunity until a powerful minister publicly broke with him on the issue.
by acanuck on Thu, 03/17/2011 - 4:15am
And Clinton claimed the US didn't pay the blood money; she parsed it carefully, it seems, according to Josh Rogin:
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/03/16/who_paid_the_blood_money_to_set_raymond_davis_free
by we are stardust on Thu, 03/17/2011 - 10:55am