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'Davis's
release put Pakistan's head down with shame'
Tuesday March 22, 2011 12:35:40 PM,
IANS
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Islamabad: The release
of CIA security contractor Raymond Davis, who killed two men in
Lahore and later paid "blood money" to their kin to avoid trial, has
put the country's head down in shame, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief
Imran Khan has said.
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz
(PML-N) had a "tacit understanding" and it was through their joint
strategy that Davis was finally released, Khan alleged.
"This act of the rulers has had the nation's head down with shame,"
Khan was quoted as saying by Geo News TV channel.
Davis, 36, shot dead two Pakistanis on a motorcycle in Lahore Jan 27
in what he described as an attempted armed robbery. He claimed he
acted in self-defence.
A court in Lahore acquitted him after he reportedly paid "blood
money" in terms of Islamic compensation law to the kin of the dead.
A senior PML-N leader had, however, said the party did not agree
with the government's stand on the Davis issue.
Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, leader of the opposition in the National
Assembly, told Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani that his party did
not agree to the method used to release Davis.
"Nowhere in my conversation with the prime minister did I express
confidence in the court verdict on Davis," he told The News
International daily.
Imran Khan also said the drone strikes by the CIA in the country's
northwestern region bordering Afghanistan, which lead to the death
of many innocent people, were happening at the government's own
will.
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