Accused US diplomat holds no special privileges
LAHORE: Deputy Prosecutor General of Punjab, Rana Bakhtiar said on Sunday that Raymond Davis had fired the bullets from the back thus it was not a case of self defense as he had stated earlier.
Referring to Article 49-2 of the Vienna Convention, he said that diplomatic officials only hold privilege when they are on duty, but Davis was in Pakistan on a business visa.
Davis is being described by the American media as a security contractor from a Florida-based firm, Hyperion Protective Consultants, LLC.
That Foreign Office and the US embassy were not on the same page on the issue of status of the accused was obvious from an FO press release that mentioned Davis as a US functionary, and not a diplomat.
Source: DAWN News
Editors note:
Through its own sources, PKKH has found out that the two gentlemen on the bike were not robbers, but were carrying licensed weapons as the brother of one of the riders had been recently assassinated and they were carrying the weapons only for their own protection.
Raymond Allen Davis on the other hand, was driving towards an unnamed location to meet a certain personnel, however, when he spotted two armed persons on a bike, he believed he had been setup and was going to get ambushed here. He made a pre-emptive strike by killing the two persons on the bike, and later made up a story that he had shot them in self defense which was obviously a blatant lie.
Raymond Allen Davis should first declare who it was that he was going to meet, and why he feared for his life that he had to carry an unlicensed weapon if he was merely out in Lahore on business. Since it has now also surfaced that Raymond works for a security consulting company based in the US, he is definitely involved in shady business in Pakistan because he has previously been denied diplomatic visa as our Intelligence agencies had objected to that being granted to him, due to his record of suspicious activities in Pakistan that were a threat to National Security.
The US Embassy in Pakistan should be ashamed of itself, for assailing support to a criminal and a terrorist, who moves around the streets of Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar, carrying an unlicensed weapon and kills as he pleases. Instead, they are requesting diplomatic immunity, which means that the US Embassy in Pakistan is an accomplice in all the crimes that are being carried out inside Pakistani territory by undercover agents and/or private security firms operatives and therefore, the US Embassy in Pakistan should either hand over the CIA Station Chief who ran away from Islamabad when his name was leaked, or should condemn the actions of Raymond Davis and deny any support to a terrorist and criminal who was caught red handed and by the laws of the Sovereign Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and deserves to be punished in accordance with the laws of Pakistan.
