Writ petition: The Raymond Davis question

A writ petition was filed in the Lahore High Court to summon former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi.


Express February 16, 2011

LAHORE: A writ petition was filed, on Tuesday, in the Lahore High Court to summon former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Pakistan Peoples Party information secretary Fauzia Wahab for making statements on double murder accused American Raymond Davis’s diplomatic immunity.

The petition asks that the court direct both Qureshi and Wahab to divulge material that would substantiate their statements. Petitoner, Advocate Muhammad Azhar Siddique, submitted that while Qureshi had said that Davis did not enjoy diplomatic immunity, Wahab had said Davis had complete immunity. The petitioner said Davis should not be handed over to the American government till the court has decided the issue of diplomatic immunity. Davis, he said, should be tired for deliberate murder and sentenced under Pakistani law. He prayed to the court that the record be sent back to the Foreign Office and copies submitted to the court. He also prayed for judicial inquiry into the alleged tampering, manipulation and forgery of the record of immunity maintained by the ministry.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 16th, 2011.

COMMENTS (7)

Abdul-Mughis Rana | 13 years ago | Reply @nancy: I must express how I used to feel about America and may be many other Pakistanis too but prior to pre 9/11 era. It was like a dream land with beautiful and honest people except your CIA and Government. But then after America changed its course to anti Islam and anti Muslim. One of my freind (who had a longer beard and still has) went to America just ahead of 9/11 and on the day or after it had an incident while returning from work in a ferry a big (white) American ran after him and threw a pipe-wrench at him and shouted "Terrorist" and all this without any proof and for no reason whatsoever. But we understand, in a mob you can't have sensibility. But American media in particular and western media in general tried and left no stone unturned in prooving Islam and Muslims at fault. Even now pope is trying to comment on a subject concerning feelings of Muslims and America, France, Norway every now and then playing and infuriating Muslims for no reason whatsoever. Islam and Muslims have always been very accomodating but there is limit of everything.
nancy | 13 years ago | Reply @No Prisoner Exchange: i dont see how a prisoner exchange would give any credibility to her usa trial, which i agree was completely unfair-but legal under usa laws. [a person charged as an 'enemy combatant' has NO LEGAL RIGHTS IN THE USA. the charge of terrorism itself is a virtual conviction. nor would the exchange of siddiqui for davis be any indication of his innocents or guilt. this is an exchange of 2 bodies. standing on some kind of 'principle' that it would give credibility to a bogus trial is just not true. this is a person at risk of being tortured for the rest of her life. to stand on some fake principle is just unprincipled. davis is no one. his counterparts probably exist in multiples in every embassy of probably every country in the world. freeing siddiqui is the most important principle. it is a demand that torture be disclosed and stopped. it is an effort to unite a mother with her children, an effort to seek the the truth. if anything, her release would point more to the fact that her trial was bogus and unfair in the first place.. .
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