Only invocation of Sharia might save Rd or Govt has to show something in return.
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deccanheraldWashington, March 5 (IANS) Washington has asked the Pakistan government 'to do everything possible' for the safety of arrested US national Raymond Davis in the wake of threats to his life, a senior US government official said.
'We are quite aware that he has received multiple death threats. We are concerned about his security, as we would be for any government official or prominent individual subject to those death threats. And we encourage the Government of Pakistan to do everything possible to provide for his security.
'But beyond that, we won't comment,' US State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley said in a statement Friday.
Tribune from pkTwo American experts arrived in Pakistan today to provide legal aid to a US embassy official on trial for shooting and killing two armed men in Lahore in January, according to media reports.
The detention of private security contractor Raymond Davis triggered a serious diplomatic row between Pakistan and the US and ties between intelligence agencies of the two countries have plunged to a new low.
The US hired three Pakistani lawyers to defend Davis, whose claim of diplomatic immunity has been rejected by a court in Lahore. Sensing that Pakistani courts will proceed against Davis, the US has now sent two legal experts to aid him, TV news channels reported.
The American experts will meet Davis at Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore, where he is being held, and discuss the cases against him, the reports said. In addition, the experts will hold a meeting with the families of the men killed by Davis, the reports said.
The US is reportedly trying to seek a solution to Davis' case under Islamic laws, which allow such matters to be settled through a "blood money" deal, sources close the families said.
The US diplomats have reportedly contacted the families and offered 'diyat' or compensation( eye for an eye is what is required under islamic law but blood money is also possible if victims family pardons. But then wife has committed suicide what happens to that) paid to the heirs of a dead person. The Pakistan government is under pressure from the US to free Davis but it is also facing internal pressure as opposition parties have demanded that he should be punished. ( there would remain unresolved case of bystander killed by speeding getaway car)
Given the doubtful loyalty of law enforcing agencies RD could be dead in any jail of Pakistan.Problem solved for both countries.LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry on Friday dismissed a petition challenging the possible shifting double murder accused, US citizen Raymond Davis, to Adiyala Jail, Rawalpindi from Kot Lakhpat Jail, Lahore.
Admonishing the lawyer, Rana Ilamud Din Ghazi, the CJ said that the court cannot issue any orders based on presumptions. The CJ said that Ghazi had filed a useless and premature petition. He asked the lawyer how he had come to know that Raymond was being shifted to Adiyala Jail.
“Have you dreamt about his shifting?” CJ questioned the petitioner angrily. Advocate Ilamudin Ghazi had filed the petition expressing apprehension that Raymond would be shifted to Adiyala Jail from where the government could easily extradite him to the US.