Abdul Nishapuri

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Pakistan: How Shari’a Freed American Ray Davis
By OMAR WARAICH / ISLAMABAD Wednesday, Mar. 16, 2011

One of the biggest crises in the history of U.S.-Pakistan relations has been resolved with the release of a CIA contractor charged with double murder. Raymond Davis was set free by a court in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore after family members of the victims submitted affidavits saying that they were prepared to forgive Davis in return for blood money. The release marks the end of tensions that plunged relations between the top intelligence agencies of the two countries, already fractious allies, to a low point.

While Davis’ release may improve ties between Washington and Islamabad, it will further inflame the Pakistani public. The case had generated a fierce wave of anti-American sentiment in Pakistan. Much of the local media is ready take a hostile position, denouncing the outcome of the Davis controversy and reporting that the victims’ families were pressured into accepting the blood money. Some members had originally refused. Some commentators said that the court’s verdict was further evidence of Pakistani weakness. Already, an angry backlash has begun. Street protests have already taken place.

Under Pakistani law, “blood money” is a legal means of securing forgiveness from the victims. Under the qasas and diyat laws, derived from Islamic jurisprudence, a court can release an accused person if the victim’s family agrees to a satisfactory cash settlement. The Shari’a-based laws are invoked in the majority of murder cases, Pakistani legal experts say. According to government officials in Punjab, Davis was charged with murder on Wednesday but then acquitted after the families of the two victims said in court that they forgave the CIA contractor and submitted documents attesting to that. Senior Pakistani officials told TIME that each victim’s family received $700,000 in compensation — for a total of $1.4 million.

The “blood money” formula to secure Davis’ release was devised by Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States. Haqqani, who is well versed in Islamic law, first discussed the proposal with Sen. John Kerry, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the co-author of a major aid package for Pakistan, Pakistani officials told TIME. By invoking the Shari’a-based provision, the two countries could work together towards a settlement that did not have to rely on Davis’ disputed status a diplomat protected under the Vienna Convention and immune from prosecution. While Washington has always maintained that Davis was protected under diplomatic immunity, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, the Foreign Minister at the time, said that he wasn’t. A Lahore court ruled that Davis didn’t enjoy diplomatic immunity last week.

(Read “The Raymond Davis Affair: Are CIA and ISI Ties Doomed?”)

Senator Kerry took the proposal to Pakistan in late February and discussed it with senior Pakistani leaders from all sides. As TIME reported on Feb. 26, the blood money proposal was then taken up as part of direct negotiations between the CIA and its Pakistani equivalent, the ISI. By not accepting Washington’s claims of immunity, and leaving the issue unresolved, Pakistan was allowed to “save face,” a senior Pakistan official says. The Pakistan government insisted that the matter be resolved through the country’s court system.

But the two sides did not reach an immediate agreement. The negotiations were drawn out and, in the process, pressure was discreetly applied on the civilian government by the ISI to secure an unprecedented two-year extension for its chief, Lieut. General Ahmed Shuja Pasha. The message was that it would not be prudent to replace him amid a major crisis involving the CIA. Pasha, who was already on a one-year extension, was due to retire on March 18, his 59th birthday.

Some observers believe Saudi Arabia may have played a mediating role, but officials denied it. The hope was that Riyadh would be able to tamp down tensions between the CIA and the ISI, with Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Muqrin bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud playing a role. The Saudis might also have been able to cool tempers among Pakistan’s religious right, who had been taking to the streets in the tens of thousands to demand Davis be hanged. Riyadh also wields some influence over the Punjab government, which is headed by the younger brother of former Prime Minsiter Nawaz Sharif, a prominent Saudi ally.

In the end, the Saudi role was not needed because the Punjab government chose not to interfere with the settlement or seek to undermine it. The ISI approached the families of the victims and asked them to accept compensation, Pakistani officials told TIME. Eventually, 18 members of the victims’ families signed affidavits saying that they were prepared to forgive Davis. On Wednesday, the Lahore court also acquitted Davis on the charge of possessing illegal weapons, after fining him $235 and saying that time already spent in prison was punishment enough. Davis has now left Pakistan for Kabul and is expected to travel back to the United States soon.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2059330,00.html#ixzz1GnxhCktf

@Musaalman,

“””Khilafat is solution.”””

>>>

Kilafat is sololution of what ?????

BTW do you think law of Di’yat is against Shariah ???

If you thought Pakistani society was polarized, take a look at the open warfare going on under the same media house roof.

The issue being discussed was, of course, the sudden release of the man known as Raymond Davis from jail after the payment of diyat or ‘blood money’ to the relatives of the deceased. What better time than that, thought Geo’s analysts with wildly divergent points of view, to attack each other in the most personalized manner possible?

First up, Geo’s Capital Talk programme, where host Hamid Mir assembled a long list of panelists and commentators he knew (or hoped) would raise a hue and cry about the release, among them the odious Irfan Siddiqui, the slippery Mohammad Mallick, the dissenting lawyer for the victims’ families and former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi. But star attraction was of course the once journalist-now-self-righteous turd known as Ansar Abbasi. Abbasi had made his contempt for the result of the case known earlier during Geo’s news bulletins but had basically tied himself up in knots over the fact that ‘Davis” release had come about through the application of the Islamic Qissas and Diyat Laws – which have been often criticised for allowing the rich to get away with murder – laws that Abbasi can’t bring himself to critique. That and the fact that ostensibly all of his former idols and regular sources, the ISI, the Sharif brothers and the judiciary were complicit in allowing ‘Davis’ to get away, seemed to have truly left him bewildered, though unfortunately not at a loss for words.

In today’s programme, which went on air at 8pm PST, Abbasi made a number of remarkable claims, such as his opinion (presented as the gospel truth) that the case was one of ‘fisaad fil arz’ [spreading division in the land] rather than a double murder and therefore making diyat inapplicable. He further added that all terrorism should now solely be blamed on the military establishment, the federal government of the PPP and the Punjab government of the PMLN for letting ‘Davis’ go. Not for nothing is Abbasi known as an apologist for the religious extremists who might actually be carrying out the acts of terror.

But Abbasi decided this was also the time to vent his considerable frustration at fellow Geo analysts who had presented an analysis entirely opposite to his. So, without naming names but making it abundantly clear who he meant, he called Najam Sethi (who had also presented his analysis on earlier Geo bulletins) “an American agent.” As proof he cited Sethi claiming to know what discussions were being held between the Pakistan government and the Americans. You can see what he said in the following clip, between 10:00 and 10:35…

It has to be mentioned that Hamid Mir had, in fact, begun his programme with a soliloquy also directed very much at Najam Sethi, criticising those who were gloating over their predictions having come true and blaming the media for misleading the public while supposedly not mentioning how the Americans had been proved wrong.

All it took was another two hours for the reply, in Aapas Ki Baat, Geo’s 11pm PST programme featuring Najam Sethi. The opening intro by host Munib Farooq immediately set the tone for the programme as seemingly a reply to Mir and Abbasi. But by the end of the programme, Sethi had managed, also without naming names but making it abundantly clear who he meant, called Ansar Abbasi and Mir brainless twits and journalists “jo apnay aap ko phannay khan samajhtay hain lekin ander se bilkul phuss hain” [who think the world of themselves but who are as empty as deflated balloons]. You can see and hear what he said between 0:00 and about 4:45 in the following clip:

Don’t you just love Geo’s tolerance of diversity? Or should one say glasnost?

Knowing the vindictive natures of both Abbasi and Mir, however, expect more sparks to fly in the pages of the Jang Group’s publications. This is going to get very ugly unless the Jang Group clamps down now.

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“”PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif had assured US Senator John Kerry when he visited Pakistan in mid-February that even if the federal government did not produce documents in the Lahore High Court showing Davis to have diplomatic immunity, the Punjab government would help get the CIA contractor pardoned through the payment of Diyat.?””
http://tribune.com.pk/story/133738/behind-the-scenes-a-release-three-weeks-in-the-making/

ISI released Raymond Davis via court.

The Times of India says, Raymond Davis’s release based on ISI-CIA secret deal..

The daily said Davis’s release “was preceded by a lot of give and take between the two countries, particularly their security agencies”.

“Therefore, it was understood that resolution of the Davis saga hinged on a deal between ISI and CIA as to how the two inter-dependent spy agencies agreed to carry forward their relationship,” it said.

His release came only a day after it was reported that the ISI and the CIA were nearing a settlement and that they had resolved their differences.

The negotiations began at a secluded luxury beach resort in Oman last month between Pakistan Army Chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and the American military top brass.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Raymond-Daviss-release-based-on-ISI-CIA-secret-deal-Report/articleshow/7725725.cms

Under Pakistani law, “blood money” is a legal means of securing forgiveness from the victims. Under the qasas and diyat laws, derived from Islamic jurisprudence, a court can release an accused person if the victim’s family agrees to a satisfactory cash settlement. The Shari’a-based laws are invoked in the majority of murder cases, Pakistani legal experts say. According to government officials in Punjab, Davis was charged with murder on Wednesday but then acquitted after the families of the two victims said in court that they forgave the CIA contractor and submitted documents attesting to that. Senior Pakistani officials told TIME that each victim’s family received $700,000 in compensation — for a total of $1.4 million. Major role was played by PML-N to pursue families to accept Diyat. After the refusal from the federal govt to release Davis, Senator John Kerry met with Ameer ul Momineen Nawaz Sharif, who assured Kerry to put entire weight for the release for their spy. Finally Punjab government successfully purchased judge and forced families to accept money. Congrats Sharif brothers. ]

GEO TV vs GEO TV on Raymond Davis – Part – 2 (Dated 16 Mar 2011) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydqn9-xM1dM

GEO TV vs GEO TV on Raymond Davis – Part – 4 (Dated 16 Mar 2011) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUKlh_6mWlA

Abdul Nishapuri

You are a disgrace to my Party (sorry not mine People’s pary). I want your resignation immediately. Report to the Presidency. You are a very disloyal US citizen.

Asif Zardari

On 10th March, only a weak ago SC declared chairman NAB Syed Deedar Hussain Shah’s appointment null and void. On very next day people of Sindh came on roads and protested against SC’s decision. Many torchbearers of Lawyer’s movement condemned PPP’s move in Sindh province and sympathized with SC. A renowned lawyer Munir A Malik was very harsh on PPP and its voters and tagged that move as unconstitutional and as an attack on independent judiciary. Our civil society was mot much happy with that successful strike in all over Sindh and the electronic and print media played its routine rustic role and criticized PPP and tried to air ethnic tension and provincialism in democratic Pakistan. All lawyers in Sindh were on strike except a few Mulla and Legee lawyers on 11th March. One freed Choudhry waked up and summoned administration of Sindh for details of strike and given an opportunity to another Choudhry petitioner for surgery of SC’s decision in which he used immoral racist and patriarchal language to humiliate people of Sindh in general and particularly the voters and supporters of PPP. Ch Iftakhar decided in favour of Ch Nisar and in veneration Ch Nisar praised Ch Iftakhar as first independent judge in history of Pakistan. Ch Nisar used vituperative immoral language against PPP leadership and integrity of Pakistan but a Malik and another Ch [Ch Iaitzaz] the champions of lawyer’s movement tired to maintain Ch Nisar’s line.

It not easy to say that who had benefited from movement of restoration of judiciary of Pakistan whether Ch Iftakhar?, Supreme Court?, Punjab Courts?, PML (N) or the lawyers who continuously beaten judges and police after they empowered by the SC.

Some one can go back in the month of March when CJ was restored through pressure of ISI and its allied factions in media, political and religious parties and can see overtime changes up to this March of 2011. The lawyers, the FCS and other supporters of freed judiciary like Hameed Gull are now talking against the freed and independent CJ.

The case of Raymond Davis [who had probably changed his name as Raymond Dayiat] proved lawyers disloyal [who are now on carpeted roads against their freed judiciary] and RD’s case proved how much our judiciary is corrupt. But our freed SC and our honourable [Chief of Choudhris] feels no shame but want to be in power to defame a federal political party.

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