LAHORE – Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry will hear a petition on February 21 seeking that former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and PPP information secretary Fauzia Wahab be summoned to give contradictory statements on the issue of diplomatic immunity to US citizen Raymond Davis and reveal facts before the court to substantiate their respective statements.
Advocate Azhar Siddique filed the petition in which he said Qureshi had publicly stated that Davis did not enjoy diplomatic immunity while Fauzia had said he had complete immunity. Azhar says American ambassador and counselor had categorically declared that the person apprehended by the Punjab Police as Raymond Davis was not Raymond Davis, however, real name had not been disclosed so far.
He said a fake person had no right to claim diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Convention or any other relevant law. Siddique said a criminal case of forgery should also be registered against him. He said Davis should not be released or handed over to the US government until the courts had decided whether he had diplomatic immunity or not.
He said Foreign Office record was being illegally removed to the Interior Ministry so that Davis’ record could be tampered with. He asked the court to send it back to the Foreign Office and copies of it might be submitted in the court. He also sought judicial inquiry into the tampering, manipulating and forgery in the record of immunity maintained by the Foreign Ministry.
