Diplomatic Immunity or License to Kill
February 8, 2011
Dr. Haroon Iqbal
Amidst the heated debate going on, on Raymond Davis case, one thing is easy to contemplate and has become part of the differential diagnosis as to who might be involved in the target killings of innocent Pakistanis in Karachi, Lahore and elsewhere. This is also easy to understand that how and why the interests of the TTP and the foreign security agencies, working undercover in Pakistan, converge. Which further infers that, who might be the inventor of the false flag outfits in Pakistan?
Hi tech weapons and gadgets found on the CIA sponsored American Terrorist Raymond Davis
Let us take a close look at the contents of
Mr. Raymonds belongings which include a GPS, a satellite phone & other hi-tech communication devices, military grade knives, cutters, 100 M16 bullets, sophisticated pistols, and above all, smart cameras, and more than 10 pictures of madrassas inside Lahore (picture shows all his belongings). Should such items be found on a respectable person like a diplomat? Or are they supposed to be found on a mercenary who was involved in espionage and/or a hunting mission?
On the other hand, the way Pakistani government and foreign office has shown an attitude of leniency in his case, highlights the convergence of the interests of the rented out Pakistani rulers and Black Water mercenaries; simply linked with the hawks sitting in Langley committed to land Pakistan in a state of complete doom.
Apart from the legal provisions and aspects, the fact that
a person like Raymond having diplomatic immunity, or granting diplomatic immunity to professional killers is a dangerous trend, simply because anybody from either the American Embassy or any other Embassy for that matter, beyond diplomatic immunity, would earn a license to kill, leaving at his/her discretion to kill anybody. Apart from that, there are serious discrepancies in the statement of the Foreign Office which has categorically stated that the person named Raymond Davis did not have a diplomatic Visa (29th Jan 2011) and his records are not available with the Foreign Office. Normally, records of each and every diplomat can be easily traced with the Foreign Office. Interior Minister Rehman Malik actually failed to prove that Raymond Davis was carrying a diplomatic visa, when he stressed that he was holding a diplomatic passport. According to The news report, Mr. Raymond was issued ordinary business visit visa and he was working for the American Consulate in Lahore.
According to the Vienna convention 1963 (article 41:1) a counselor officer has got NO immunity once he commits a serious crime like the one committed by Raymond. According to another report of The News, America itself has tried diplomats in a court of law, who had committed serious crimes.
In Raymonds case, question of self defense does not arise, due to the following reasons:
The assassinated have been shot from the back as per autopsy reports.
Not a single bullet was fired from their side.
Mr. Obaid ur Rehman was crushed and killed by the accomplices of Raymond, was that done in self defense too?
In a nutshell, such an endorsement to mercenaries will provide so called diplomats with a license to kill. One wonders where those foreign funded, western beleaguered NGOs have disappeared when two human beings (supposedly Pakistanis) were killed in cold blood, in broad daylight? They were quite vocal on the killing of Governor Salman Taseer! Is the blood of an ordinary Pakistani is so cheap that American mercenaries strolling in Pakistani streets can gun down anybody under the protection of diplomatic immunity and the lame excuse of self defense?
Veterans Todays FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2011 issue states, it may be mentioned that Raymond Davis is an employee of a private security company Hyperion Protective Consultants LLC based at 5100 North Lane, Orlando, Florida, 32808. This has been reported by NBC and confirmed by Huffington Post. A contractor employee has never been granted any diplomatic status but here the US is adamant to grant him one.(By Hamid Waheed).
It is clearly stated here that US law does not permit Diplomatic status for a person who is working for a private security company. According to a senior Journalist of a renowned Pakistani TV Channel, Pakistani government has illegally issued legal visas to around 130 Americans and 86 Indians, via Dubai, to enter Pakistan without prior approval of the Pakistans premier Intelligence Agency the much dreaded ISI. If such a legal requirement cant be fulfilled under normal circumstances, it cant be something consistent with the normal diplomatic proceedings, and hence,
tens of hundreds of CIA/RAW agents have been given visas through Pakistani government to unleash terror within Pakistan; Pointing towards which, an American diplomat stated it looks awful when we see that a country like Pakistan has waged war against itself.
The position of the Pakistani government is self-explanatory, when we see that the Interior Minister Rehman Malik has stressed that Raymond Davis was carrying a diplomatic passport, which is an appalling delude, whereby diplomatic status and visa issue has been confused with diplomatic passport. Punjab police also played a dirty role in this enigma, by registering the assassinated persons as dacoits, in their bid to weaken the case against the assailant. Punjab Government even excelled the Federal Government in pleasing Americans by forcefully detaching the Prosecutor General Mr. Rana Bakhtyiar from this case. His only fault was that he affronted the masters by condemning the barbaric act in the guise of diplomacy.
Now according to FOX NEWS, quoting Pakistani embassy in New York, Raymond will soon be released from the clutches of the Pakistani court of law.
It is quite obvious that a weak case is being prepared against the assassin by crafting a vague investigation report coupled with a half hearted pursuance of the case on deliberations of the slavish rulers sitting in the Government. It goes without saying that how can flunkies, who came into power with American approval could possibly resist its pressure. The value of the precious Pakistani lives in the eyes of its rulers is quite understandable when hundreds of drone attacks have taken the lives of thousands of innocent Pakistani civilians. Moreover, an even pinching statement was made by
President Asif Ali Zardari who commented to the Americans that collateral damage could be a matter of concern for them but not for him. Such is the listless and apathetic mentality which is governing this country.
The single most convincing evidence that Raymond Davis is a serving undercover CIA operative, is that his original name is nowhere to be found in the diplomatic records. Additionally, his passport harbors a different name than the one he goes by.
Part of Pakistans Electronic and Print media once again proved that it is sellable merchandise, when it played its role to weaken the case against Raymond. Soon after the incident a prominent Private channel highlighted that Raymond fired in self defense and that the assassinated were robbers with pistols in their hands (Here the dirty role of the police cannot be ruled out). Also, it emphasized that that those who killed were shot from front (against the reality) while the actual autopsy showed that they were shot from the back. Similarly, several analysts played their assigned role to prove that they were sold out, by arguing immunity for the assassin. This is how Pakistani media has been infiltrated by the hostile foreign agencies.
The case of Raymond Davis is only a tip of the iceberg, and it exposes the dreadful reality that how agencies like CIA have permeated deep within every strata of the Pakistani society and unless they are fully rooted out, Pakistan will never be freed from the ghastly claws of terror campaign deployed against its integrity which is being unfolded under the code name War on Terror.
Now you tell me how can one bear such language against his/her country? 
