Tag: Release

LAHORE - The release of Raymond Davis is just a green light for more killings and assassinations by the US government and the CIA in Pakistan, Robert Anderson, a former CIA operative has said in an interview with Talkhaba.
Anderson, who operated in Vietnam around 60 years ago, talked about undercover work the CIA did back then and the similarities with it now in terms of running operatives like Raymond Davis working in Pakistan. "The pillage and slaughter of Pakistanis will

LAHORE - The release of US national Raymond Davis and arrest of PCS officers dominated the Punjab Assembly (PA) proceedings on Monday, which restrained the treasury benches from carrying out its routine work.
The opposition alleged that the Punjab government played its role for the release of Davis saying that the House should be allowed to hold a debate on the topic that how Davis was released. The PA speaker started the question hour session but point of orders did not allow

LAHORE - No body knew his name, designation and the job he was on, but he was the all-in-all at Kot Lakhpat Jail on March 16 when Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Yousaf Aoujla heard the double murder case against Raymond Davis. His only identification was his blue trousers and blue shirt, and he had only one answer to all the questions about his identification: "I am your servant".
He was so influential that he was the only person allowed to use cell phone during

LAHORE - Jamaat Ahl-e-Hadith Senior Vice President (Central) Allama Zubair Ahmad Zaheer said that if Raymond Davis like terrorist was caught in Saudi Arabia, then he would have been beheaded at the earliest.
People who are naming Saudi Arabia for the release of Davis cannot be friends of Islam and Pakistan and they cannot digest the friendly relations of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. He also claimed that Saudi Arab never interfered in the internal matters of Pakistan.
He was

CAIRO - Egyptian police detained the brother of al Qaeda no. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri on Sunday, days after he had been released as part of an amnesty extended to political prisoners, lawyers representing him said. Mohammad al-Zawahri was arrested at his home in a Cairo suburb in the early hours of the morning, said lawyers Mamdouh Ismail and Nizar Ghurab.
No reason was given for his detention and it was not clear where he was taken, they said. Zawahri, a member of the Islamic Jihad

SAHIWAL - Jamaat-e-Islami took out a rally against the release of US national Raymond Davis, the killer of two Pakistanis.
The JI rally passed through the city's main bazaars, holding the banners inscribed with slogans against the federal and Punjab rulers. Addressing the protesters, the rally leaders said it was the outcome of a secret deal between Preasident Asif Ali Zardari and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and both of them compelled the heirs of the families of the

RIYADH - Dozens of Saudi men gathered outside the Interior Ministry in the capital Riyadh on Sunday to demand the release of jailed relatives, amid a heavy police presence.
Some were seen arguing with police but were not shouting slogans or holding protest signs. At least 50 police cars surrounded the ministry, and three men were seen by a Reuters witness being put into police cars.
"We have seen at least three or four police vehicles taking people away," said an activist

ISLAMABAD - Saudi Ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Aziz Ibrahim bin Saleh Al-Ghadeer called on Interior Minister Rehman Malik at his office on Saturday. A source in the interior ministry said both the leaders discussed the overall situation emerging after the release of the US national Raymond Davis who killed two Pakistanis It added that Rehman Malik appreciated the Saudi role in the release of the US national and expressed satisfaction on the modus operandi adopted in this regard. It

LAHORE - A constitutional petition has been filed in the Supreme Court at the Lahore Registry to seek contempt of court action against Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Yousaf Aujla on the charges that he released double murder accused Raymond Davis, executing a 'conspiracy' and acting in violation of the Constitution of Pakistan and the law. The petition has been filed by Watan Party President Barrister Zafarullah Khan while contending that he had moved an application

HAFIZABAD - Jamaat-e-Islami, Sunni Ittihad Council and Khaksar Tehreek took out separate rallies against the release of Raymond Davis. The first rally, led by Jamaat-e-Islami District Amir Dr Yaseen Ansari, was taken out from the JI office and terminated at Fawara Chowk where Yaseen Ansari, and Gurjanwala Kisan Board Divisional President Hakeem Muhammad Iqbal addressed the protesters. Sunni Ittihad Council started the second rally from Jaamia Masjid Al-Farooq Hafizabad that was led by

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE/KARACHI - Thousands of people took to the streets across the country on Friday to protest a US drone strike that killed 44 people this week and the release of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor Raymond Davis, who had been held for murdering two Pakistanis in Lahore on January 27.
Security was tight and the US embassy in Islamabad and its consulates in Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar were closed in anticipation of public anger, but fears of violence proved

KARACHI - The Founder of Muttahida Quami Movement(MQM) Altaf Hussain has said that the responsibility for releasing the American Raymond Davis rests with the Punjab Government because he killed Pakistanis in Lahore and hence the prosecution, government responsibility to the Punjab Government. He said that if Raymond Davis could be released under the Sharia law of Diyat by paying blood money by the court orders then the US Government should pay the blood money to the family members of

LAHORE - The Imamia Students Organization (ISO) held a rally against the killings in Bahrain and the release of Raymond Davis from the Lahore Press Club to the Punjab Assembly on Friday. Abdul Khaliq, an ISO office bearer, led the rally, in which the protestors chanted slogans against the Saudi Arabia's role in Davis' release.
Protestors said that the killings in Bahrain will not be tolerated at any cost and should be stopped immediately.
They asked the Muslims to support

FAISALABAD - Angry protests erupted in different parts of the city after the victims' families pardoned American Central Investigation Agency (CIA) agent Raymond Davis in a deal which gave them blood money in accordance with the Sharia Law. Faisalabad District Bar Association (DBA) boycotted the courts to protest against the decision and an emergency general house meeting was called by President Fawad Ahmed Cheema that passed a unanimous resolution condemning the decision. A number of

ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR - Religious and social organisations on Thursday staged protests across the country against the release of Raymond Davis, who killed two Pakistanis in Lahore on January 27. In Islamabad, hundreds of JI workers staged a protest demonstration at Aabpara market, strongly criticising both the PPP and PML-N for releasing the CIA contractor.
The JI called Davis' release an attack on Pakistan's sovereignty and vowed to stage nationwide protests against the

ISLAMABAD - The covert but solid role played by the Punjab government in getting the US national Raymond Davis released is the third successive blunder on part of the ruling PML-N, which has jeopardised the party's popularity. PML-N leaders seem puzzled and erratic while defending the blunders, as all three important decisions taken by the Sharif brothers in the last fortnight have garnered widespread criticism.
The leniency exhibited by the Punjab government to enable the CIA

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE - A constitutional petition challenging Raymond Davis' release was filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday, requesting that the orders given by the Lahore additional district and sessions judge be declared illegal, and unconstitutional. The petition was filed by Maulvi Iqbal Haider under Article 184(3) of the constitution, making the federation of Pakistan, the government of Punjab, the home secretary and the Punjab prosecutor general, Lahore Additional District and