ISLAMABAD – The US embassy in Islamabad has in the recent past settled two cases under the Qisas and Diyat laws by paying compensation to the families after embassy drivers killed two citizens in Islamabad in two separate road accidents. In both the cases, Americans driving rashly crushed two Pakistani citizens to death, however, the aggrieved families were provided compensation by the US embassy to settle the issue.
Police sources said the families had been paid $10,000 each by the US embassy and a senior federal minister close to the Americans played a crucial role to settle the issues. The source said after the Raymond Davis incident in Lahore, the same minister had been trying his level best to persuade the affected families to accept the Qisas-Diyat payment, but the families of the victims have flatly refused the payment.
In the first incident on June 4, 2010, a US Embassy vehicle (IDM 6613) driven by one Mike crushed Muhammad Yameen, 45, to death at the Constitution Avenue. An FIR was registered against the US official with the Secretariat Police Station, however, Yameen’s family was given compensation money and they withdrew the case.
The second incident occurred on July 7, 2010, at 7th Avenue when a speedy US embassy vehicle crushed a 21-year-old motorcyclist, Jawadur Rehman, to death. It was a hit-and-run accident. Subsequently, an FIR was registered against the embassy official who was later identified as Tire Johnson, an officer attached to the embassy’s force protection department.
