Breaking News: Raymond Davis has been freed

[itsnotme90]

Re: How much money paid into foreign bank accounts of the politicians who helped to free Raymind Davis?

Na zardari bura hai na nawaz sharif bura hai. Asal drama pakistan army ka hai jo pehlay dramay say is government ko lai aur jali vote dalay . asal dushman ko pehchano

 

[simple_and_peacefull]

Davis case: Slain men’s families secretly flown to UAE

By Asad Kharal
Published: March 20, 2011

Family members of the men killed by Raymond Davis were secretly been flown out of the country. PHOTO: FILE

LAHORE: Family members of the two men shot dead by CIA contractor Raymond Davis have secretly been flown out of the country, The Express Tribune has learnt.

A chartered plane carrying 18 family members of Faizan Haider and Faheem Shamshad, the two men killed by Davis, left the Chaklala air base on Friday at 4:30 pm for the United Arab Emirates (UAE), sources said.
The plane landed at the Dubai airport from where the 18 people proceeded to Abu Dhabi where two houses have been rented for them. Four American Green Cards and two residences in the US have also been arranged for the two families.
Interestingly, husbands of the seven sisters of the two victims have also disappeared along with their children, the sources said. They have been shifted to undisclosed location for their safety.
They will soon be shifted to Abu Dhabi to be reunited with other members of their respective families. They include Muhammad Afzal and Ramzan, spouses of Faheem’s sisters Nazia and Mumtaz, and Amir Hashmi, Malik Khurram, Rasheed Chohan, Ayub and Imran, husbands of Faizan’s sisters Mumtaz, Nazia, Aasia, Zille Huma, Shazia and Saima.
Davis was acquitted by a court on Wednesday after the two families agreed to execute a ‘blood money’ deal to pardon him.
Court documents show discrepancies in the amount of money given to the legal heirs of the two slain men. It has also been learnt that the heirs of the two deceased men had no idea about the blood money deal, even hours before the deal was struck on Friday.
The documents, copies of which are available with The Express Tribune, do not mention how the money was paid.
Interestingly, three payment receipts, written on plain paper without any official attestation, were presented in the court on Friday. The heirs of Faizan and Faheem were made to sign these receipts in the Kot Lakhpat jail minutes before the hearing.
The amount of money given to each heir of Faheem’s family was handwritten to show that overall Rs100 million in blood money was paid to the family. A similar one-page document was used to show the amount paid to members of Faizan’s family.
Legal experts believe that because the documents are in Urdu language, they must have been drafted by Pakistani authorities in a bid to allow members of both the families to accept the deal without consulting any outside legal expert in order to keep Davis’ release a secret.
The sources said that US Consul-General Carmela Conroy, Consular Officer Jasson Rieff and Officer of Foreign Litigation Paul Harrep, struck the blood money deal, which was brokered by functionaries of a Pakistani intelligence agency and the Punjab government.
They added that the families of the two victims were taken into ‘protective custody’ on March 14 at the start of negotiations for the blood money deal and remained in custody until Friday when they boarded a chartered plane at the Chaklala air base.
According to documents presented in the court, Faheem’s father Shamshad Ali received Rs11.11 million as blood money, Halima Begum (mother) got Rs33.33 million, Muhammad Saleem, Muhammad Waseem, Muhammad Jamshaid and Muhammad Akram (brothers) got Rs11.11 million each, while Nazia Afzal and Mumtaz (sisters) received Rs5.55 million.
Similarly, Faizan’s mother Perveen Akhtar got Rs33.33 million, his widow Zehra got Rs25 million, while Imran, Usman and Salman (brothers) received Rs7.5 million each, and his sisters got Rs3.78 million each.
According to the deal, four persons from the two families would first go to the US after completing visa formalities. Later, other family members would be considered for permanent residence in the US, the sources said.
Earlier arrangements had been made for the two families in Pakistan, so that they could complete the necessary paperwork. The situation, however, changed when Iqbal Jaffery, a senior lawyer, requested the court to summon the legal heirs of Faizan and Faheem. It was then that the authorities decided to send both the families to the UAE.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 20th, 2011.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/135279/davis-case-slain-mens-families-secretly-flown-to-uae/

 

[simple_and_peacefull]

US-Pakistan relations after Raymond Davis

By Editorial
Published: March 20, 2011

Protestors gather in Karachi on March 19, 2011, against the release of a CIA contractor Raymond Davis. PHOTO: AFP

If you connect all the dots, Pakistan and America are going to clash in the near future. The bilateral equation is virtually at an end, and a revolution is going to unfold in Pakistan with popular acclaim, most probably with al Qaeda heading the religious militants of our madrassa network. After the release of Raymond Davis, Washington should have been grateful for another anti-US pantomime with a good ending, but the party (read CIA) that unleashed the Raymond Davis crisis decided to unleash another with a drone attack killing 45 of a peaceful jirga in North Waziristan, including the local police (khasadars).
The Pakistan Army, increasingly bothered about what the people of Pakistan think or what the TV channels care to project has decided to challenge the US more directly on the drones. Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has earned the admiration of the mostly-religious protesters in the streets of Pakistan by putting the Pakistan Air Force on alert after cancelling the leave of its entire staff and denouncing the drone attack as a counterproductive action. The tribal chiefs in the affected area have given a call for jihad against the US, and they dont have to go far to join the war unfolding in Pakistan under the leadership of Osama bin Laden and his loyalist Taliban. The war against terrorism, which Pakistan joined under General Musharraf, may be reaching its endgame by Pakistan changing sides.
So far it was the exercise of joining the dots. But behind these recent developments there is the bulwark of US-Pakistan relations that has endured many storms in the past and seems to have survived after every dip in the graph of bilateral warmth. Who is challenging whom to break out of it? Who is leaning on brinkmanship to get the other to show his hand and retreat? Behind the current anti-American wave in Pakistan stand a variety of analysts and doomsayers. There is one class which believes Pakistan should not break out of the pro-US stance but tighten the screw on Washington to make it behave. Then there is a group of realist experts who say that the US-Pakistan relationship is transactional but, in this equation, America clearly needs Pakistan more than Pakistan needs the US. The third group comprises the passionate TV anchor and the fulminating clergy on the roads who want a clean cut-off with America and expect Pakistans fortunes to change after that in the shape of some miracle they cant describe just yet.
If you read the statements issuing from the US State Department especially words spoken by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the GHQ in Pakistan may be right in thinking that Americas policy in the region cannot bear fruit without Pakistani help. But General Petraeus, the top US military commander in Afghanistan, seems oblivious of the latest drone outrage when he asks Pakistan to attack North Waziristan. It seems that, when it comes to the crunch, Pakistan will have to forget its honour-driven passions and take a good look at its collapsing economy. Any suspension of American aid will not hurt Pakistan greatly, but if the US uses its clout with the international financial institutions and multilateral development assistance agencies to roll back their aid too, then the pain will be unbearable and will unleash a revolution in Pakistan by the end of 2011. The GHQ may be thinking that the nuisance of its India-driven rebellion may still be outweighed by the part Pakistan plays in the war against terrorism. In October 2010, a checkpost attack by US troops allowed Pakistan to demonstrate who was boss in US-Pakistan relations by making Washington apologise abjectly. Will this be repeated in March 2011? Keep in mind that public opinion in the US about Pakistan is at its most negative and that Pakistan is completely isolated internationally on what it is getting ready to do.
Pakistans internal situation is perilous. The economy is gradually coming to a halt and the tsunami of the unemployed, formed by Pakistans energy crisis and general bankruptcy of state institutions, is looming on the horizon. This is not a revolution that will set things right. This looks like chaos presided over by al Qaeda, whose faith-driven blueprint focuses on war (and booty), not on economic survival.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 20th, 2011.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/135013/us-pakistan-relations-after-raymond-davis/

 

[famamdani]

یہ ہے امریکہ اور ڈالر کی طاقت. اگر وہ چاہیں تو اپ سب کی جان و مال عزت و ابرو خرید سکتے ہیں. اس کے بعد پاکستان میں کسی پر اعتماد کیا جاسکتا ہے

yes allah rabbul izzat per.................................why not::::::::::::::

 

[famamdani]

apna banda bhi le gaye... Aur apna paisa bhi wapas apne mulk le gaye along with workers... Ab ye maqtoolin ke worasaa tamam umer amrika ke leiay kam kar kar ke sarte rahengay... How stupid & fool nation we are...???
Uss judge ko kitne paisay milay...? May be he got the green card too

no he become a black card.....................................................for hell.....................

 

[famamdani]

Re: Dont forget , Raymond Davis was not just a killer....

i did not get one thing.

Ok, i can accept that raymond davis got free after having an agreement with the guardians of persons who got killed.

What about the pictures and maps recovered from him?
Was he interrogated about it?
Was court not able to establish him a spy?

Why only "blood money" is discussed?
Why not other issues that could charge him for working against pakistan while in pakistan,

we dont have right to ask ..............................but..............................chup ::::::::::::chup:::::::::::::::::::chup............................

 

[zeshaan]

http://www.jasarat.com/epaper/mmdetails.php?date=21-03-2011&file=12&category=nation

 

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Monday March 21st 2011

Pakistan
Money is thicker than blood
America and Pakistan agree to settle their spy dispute

Mar 17th 2011 | LAHORE | from the print edition

NOT everyone will sleep easier after a Pakistani court freed Raymond Davis on March 16th. The American, a contractor who worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), had faced trial for killing two robbers on a busy street in Lahore late in January. There was no way to hush up the affair. Two others, also from the CIA, compounded the crime by knocking down and killing a third Pakistani as they raced to Mr Davis’s aid. As it became obvious that the American was no ordinary diplomat—his car was jammed with extravagant bits of spy gear—anti-American street protests erupted.
Pakistan’s main military-intelligence body, the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence), kept the public mood simmering. It leaked telling details, such as the fact that Mr Davis had fired 12 bullets at his assailants, including three into the back of one victim. The ISI has been in a foul mood for months, angry that American spies have been allowed, independently, to hunt extremists such as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the group behind the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, or the Haqqani network, which is behind a great deal of violence in Afghanistan.
American efforts to free their man plodded along slowly, hampered in part by politicians, notably the rulers of Punjab province, who were happy to milk anger on the street to bolster their own popularity. Neither the courts nor Pakistan’s government dared to defy public anger (or the ISI) by accepting American claims that Mr Davis enjoyed immunity. That became irrelevant this week after the victims’ relatives agreed to follow Islamic law and trade a pardon for cash (around $2m, in all, though the Americans denied paying). The families may also be relocated—which, if true, sounds like a wise move, since some extremists said they would kill anyone who took the Americans’ money.
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The relatives may have had limited say: a lawyer claims officials harangued them for hours to agree to the pardon. If so, what persuaded the officials? Rumours swirl that the Saudis may have acted as interlocutors. The heads of the CIA and ISI spoke recently by phone. The ISI had demanded oversight of those independent American agents and this week leaked the names of several dozen people who, agents or not, will probably now have to leave the country. More is the pity, if the upshot is less monitoring of groups like LeT, seen by Pakistan as useful, but by America as terrorists.(http://www.economist.com/node/18389209/print)

 

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JOKE OF THE DAY

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[simple_and_peacefull]

http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/mar2011-daily/21-03-2011/u66027.htm

 

[simple_and_peacefull]

http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/mar2011-daily/21-03-2011/u66052.htm

 

[simple_and_peacefull]

http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/mar2011-daily/21-03-2011/u66061.htm

 

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[Believer]

Blog about propaganda against Army and ISI.

Imagine a Pakistan without the Pakistan Army!!
The most coveted desire of the enemies of Pakistan at present!

As Pakistan Army is a sore thorn in the eyes of the enemies of Pakistan, they have fully utilized to their advantage, the issue of the release of CIA operative, Raymond Davis. All hell has broken loose against the Pakistan Army and ISI as the media is crying foul at ISIs role in the release of Davis. The corrupt government is not ready to take any responsibility in this matter, and the stance of Judiciary too is raising a lot of questions in the public.
Regardless of the debate whether ISI and Pakistan Army are responsible for Raymonds release, this fact should be remembered that it was the ISI and Pakistan Army which interrogated Raymond Davis for 61 days! They not only obtained important intelligence from him but also located hundreds like him who were involved in anti-state activities all over the country. These agents have now been deported from the country and the CIA has been dealt with an iron fist. All over the internet, the international newspapers are reporting that the Pakistani ISI had an upper hand in negotiations with the CIA.
The Pakistani politicians cannot communicate at an equal level with their American counterparts, what to say about communication from a stronger position. The Pakistani Intelligence, on the other hand, is in a stronger position when communicating with the American CIA.
If it was not for the ISI, the sold-out government was willing to hand Davis back to America the same day that he was caught!
It is time that the Pakistani public realizes the games played by the Zionist media groups in the country to destabilize the country. It is the biggest treachery imaginable, to turn a nation against their own defenders. Not only various newspapers and channels are carrying out propaganda against the armed forces but the highly popular social networks like Facebook and other social and political forums are also being used by the cyber-warriors to defame Pak Army and ISI. This is exactly what has happened in Libya. The Globalists created distances between the Libyan army and the Libyan public and have now found an excuse to attack Libya under the umbrella of United Nations.
The Pakistani youth, which is already running high on emotions due to the constant afflictions suffered at the hands of heartless leaders, does not know how to handle this situation and is venting out its anger on the Pakistan Army. By doing this, the Pakistanis are directly playing in the enemys hands. Such sentiments will only increase anarchy in the country. Extremely negative ideas are being circulated around, enticing people to aggression. Questions are being raised about the budget and expenses of the armed forces, whereas the nation should be thankful to men of this Pakistan Army who put their lives on line every day, not for themselves, but to protect their fellow citizens.
Whether it is an earthquake, a flood, or the management of internally displaced persons, Pakistan Army has always been the most reliable and dependable institute in the country. How can we put aside the valiant men who are honourably serving the nation at Siachin? A glacier that is considered by all to be the toughest terrain in the world!! Thousands of men of this same Army have lost their lives ridding the nation of the fitna of TTP [Tehriq-e-Taliban Pakistan]. All Pakistanis should support Pakistan Armed Forces, because it is the only wall standing between us and the enemy!
Pakistan Zindabaad!!
Pak Army Zindabaad!!

This is what Dr Farrukh Saleem, an Islamabad based Defense Analyst, had to say about Armys role in the release of Raymond Davis, in The News [Sunday, March 20, 2011]:

March 16: Pakistani court releases Davis.

The Finale: One; Pakistani courts under Pakistani law gave the final verdict.

Two; heirs of Pakistanis killed had the final say.

Three; the ISI negotiated and won what they thought was in Pakistans best interest.

Four; Philip Crowleys threats and John Kerrys dollars did not work.

Five; between January 27 and February 23, the Punjab Government, the Federal Government and the ISI managed to resist all sorts of American threats, bluffs and blackmailing.

Six; at the end of the day America was made to back off, Pakistan prevailed.

Seven; Pakistan now begins bowling (read: the endgame in Afghanistan) with an upper hand.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=37221&Cat=9&dt=3/20/2011

 

[US State Department]

Fawad Digital Outreach Team US State Department​

جو جذباتی تجزيہ نگار ريمنڈ ڈيوس کے ايشو کے حوالے سے تند وتيز جملوں اور نت نئ تاويليوں کے ذريعے بے چينی کی فضا پيدا کر رہے ہيں اور اس معاملے کو امريکہ پاکستان کے مابين تعلقات کے حوالے سے اہم ترين موڑ قرار دے رہے ہيں انھيں يہ نقطہ سمجھنا چاہیے کہ اسٹريجيک اتحاديوں کے مابين تعلقات مقبول نعروں اور چند افراد کے سياسی ايجنڈے کے تابع نہيں ہوتے۔ اس کے علاوہ اقوام کی فتح اور شکست کا پيمانہ ايسے حادثوں اور واقعات کی بنياد پر نہيں ہوتا جو محض چند افراد سے متعلق ہوں۔​

جنوری 27 کو پيش آنے والے واقعات کے سلسلے ميں امريکی حکومت کو مورد الزام نہيں قرار ديا جا سکتا۔ ہم نے ہميشہ يہ بات کہی ہے کہ وہ ايک افسوس ناک واقعہ تھا اور زندگيوں کا ضياع المناک تھا۔ ليکن اس معاملے کا منطقی اور سلجھا ہوا حل امريکہ اور پاکستان دونوں کے مفاد ميں ہے۔​

ميں يہ بھی واضح کر دوں کہ امريکہ کا فريقين کے اوپر مسلسل دباؤ کے حوالے سے جو مبہم خبريں اور افواہیں گردش کر رہی ہيں وہ بھی بالکل بے بنياد اور غلط ہيں۔ ہم نے اپنی پوزيشن شروع دن سے سب کے سامنے واضح کی تھی اور ہمارا نقطہ نظر اس حوالے سے مستقل رہا ہے۔ اس ميں کوئ شک نہيں کہ ہمارے سينير اہلکار اور سفارت کار پاکستانی ہم عصروں کے ساتھ مسلسل رابطے میں تھے۔ ليکن ميڈيا کے بعض حلقوں کی جانب سے غلط تاثر کے برعکس ان ملاقاتوں کا مقصد دباؤ يا دھمکی ہرگز نہيں تھا۔ ہميں اس بات کا پورا حق تھا کہ ہم نہ صرف يہ کہ پاکستانی حکام تک اپنے تحفظات پہنچائيں بلکہ ان کے دلائل اور نقطہ نظر سے بھی آگاہی حاصل کريں۔ دنيا بھر ميں سفارت کار يہی ذمہ داری ادا کرتے ہیں۔ اس ميں کوئ انہونی بات يا منفی پہلو ہرگز نہيں تھا۔ ​

فواد ڈيجيٹل آؤٹ ريچ ٹيم يو ايس اسٹيٹ ڈيپارٹمينٹ​

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[simple_and_peacefull]

Dear fawad,

hows welcome back party for r.d... Had everyone enjoyed the party.

Reason of release of rd was puppets of usa. Puppets are our selfish and greedy leaders.......

There was no way rd get release if we dont had these puppets.

 

[drkjke]

read the news above..daughter of reymond davis,s lawyer uzma bukhaari with pride saying that her father is "great man" for protecting americans...
to this level our nation has fallen!that if a man follows islam he is called terrorist and if man sells his nation to americans than his children with pride advertise it on media that our father is great.
may allah punish these faasiqeen amen

 

[Wadaich]

read the news above..daughter of reymond davis,s lawyer uzma bukhaari with pride saying that her father is "great man" for protecting americans...
to this level our nation has fallen!that if a man follows islam he is called terrorist and if man sells his nation to americans than his children with pride advertise it on media that our father is great.
may allah punish these faasiqeen amen

تیر کھا کے جو دیکھا کمیں گاہ کی طرف
اپنے ہی دوستوں سے ملاقات ہو گئی
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