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KARACHI - Investors became invigorated after the release of a US citizen, an issue which had become a major bone of contention between Pakistan and the US. After a week long bearish spell at the local bourse, aggressive buying by local institutions at lower levels was witnessed which helped maintain the positive trend throughout the day. The KSE-100 index managed to close up 64 points at 11,858 with 117 million shares traded today, up 8.4 percent. Locals were buyers in index heavy

LAHORE - The city's main roads roared with anti-Raymond Davis slogans as people turned out in large numbers to protest against his release on Thursday. Protests were held all across the city. Islami Jamiat Talba(IJT) held protests outside the US Consulate and inside the Punjab University's new campus, while Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) protested in Thokar Niaz Baig and at Shalamar Chowk, and lawyers protested outside the Lahore High Court. LAWYERS PROTEST: The lawyers in their

ISLAMABAD - The swift release of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor Raymond Davis has not only fuelled anger across the country but also left behind many doubts and questions regarding the settlement of the double-murder case, which had been a headache for the Pakistan government for 50 days. Legal experts and Islamic scholars say that the murder charges against Davis were dropped under the diyat ("blood money") law without issuing certification of successors

LAHORE - "Pakistanis should take to the streets to provide justice to our family," Mashood-ur-Rehman, brother of Obaid-ur-Rehman, invoked protesters outside the US Consulate and the Lahore Press Club on Wednesday.
The protest against Raymond Davis's release at the US Consulate was joined by the Jama'at-e-Islami, the Pakistan People's Front and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) student and political wings. Slogans and stones: Protestors threw stones on the policemen and burnt US

LAHORE - Raymond Davis's release on Wednesday left the citizens of the provincial metropolis reeling with many questions. The locals showed anger and disappointment over the court's order to release Davis, a murderer of two Pakistanis, after the victims' families settled for blood money.
Pakistan Today took a survey regarding Davis' release, and below are some of the comments received from interviews of a cross-section of society. Shahnaz, a resident of Old Anarkali, says that it

CAIRO/ISLAMABAD - The US government did not pay any compensation to families of the two Pakistanis killed by Raymond Davis, the American national, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday.
"The United States did not pay any compensation," Clinton told reporters in Cairo. Asked who paid the families, she replied: "You will have to ask the families." Asked if the Pakistan government had paid compensation, the secretary of state said: "You will have to ask the

LAHORE - It was about 3.30am on Wednesday when officials of law enforcement agencies picked up the families of Faizan and Fahim, both of whom were shot dead in broad daylight by US national Raymond Davis on January 27, from their houses.
Well-placed sources told Pakistan Today that the officials reached Kot Lakhpat Jail with 19 close relatives of Faizan and Fahim at about 5.30am. Everything was planned and seven beds were ready for the nocturnal guests in the Zardari Barracks,

LAHORE - It was nothing short of a commando action that saw the release of US national Raymond Davis after his indictment by a local court on Wednesday, with the Punjab government turning out to be the biggest facilitator. In fact the US government could not have asked for more from the Punjab government.
No wonder, even a person like Rana Sanaullah who is ever ready to take on his opponents seemed quite subdued while facing the volley of questions from reporters and political

ISLAMABAD - Since reporters were not allowed to cover the proceedings of the case against Raymond Davis and no verdict of the court was released, the settlement of the case has become something of a mystery as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the State Department deny the US paid any compensation money to the victims' heirs while a private TV channel gave a break-up of the amount distributed among the two families.
Under Islamic Law, an heir of the victim in a case of

LAHORE - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) sought to distance itself from the pardon and subsequent release of CIA contractor Raymond Davis on Wednesday and Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah and National Assembly Opposition Leader Nisar Ali Khan denied on Wednesday that the Punjab government had anything to do with it.
Sanaullah denied the notion that the Punjab government had influenced the victims' families and played a part in their deal with Davis. He said it was the

KARACHI/LAHORE - The economic managers of Pakistan, haunted by official and unofficial forecasts that the country's external accounts could deteriorate in the rest of FY11, must have sighed in relief after the release of CIA operative Raymond Davis on Wednesday.
The traders, businessmen, stock brokers and analysts also welcomed the Wednesday's release of Davis expecting that the move would help Washington and Islamabad ease a lingering diplomatic strain that would certainly augur

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD - Lawyers are divided over the issue of the release of Raymond Davis, as some of them said that the whole affair was conducted in a dubious manner, whereas others said the matter was resolved in accordance with the law of the land. Justice Tariq Mehmood said the decision was in accordance with law of the land as it permits that if the heirs of a person killed agree to diyat or blood money, the murderer could be forgiven and subsequently acquitted by the court.