Washington: The US-Pak ties have strained following the detention of American diplomat Raymond Davis in Lahore and the Abbottabad raid which killed Osama bin Laden, affecting the bilateral military cooperation, President Barack Obama has told the Congress.
"Bilaterally, the fallout of the raid resulting in the death of Osama bin Laden continued to complicate the United States-Pakistan relationship, further strained by a series of media reports based on alleged leaks from both the United States and Pakistan," Obama said in a new report to Congress on US operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
"The kidnapping of an American citizen United States Agency for International Development (USAID) contractor provided an avenue for cooperation between law enforcement authorities, but simultaneously added a new level of security concern to US partners working in Pakistan," Obama said.
The unclassified section of the report running into 25 pages has been obtained by Press Trust of India....
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08:53 AM, Oct 01, 2011
Lahore: JuD chief and LeT founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed has criticised Pakistan government for its "cruel act" of freeing suspected CIA contractor Raymond Davis following a "blood money" deal with families of the two men he killed here, while the country's religious parties have said they will organise protests on Friday. Davis was freed on Wednesday under a "blood money" deal allowed by the Islamic law of 'diyat' or compensation...
05:45 PM, Mar 17, 2011
Lahore: A CIA contractor indicted earlier in the day on two murder charges in Pakistan was acquitted and released on Wednesday after a deal to pay "blood money" to the victims' families was reached, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah told Reuters. The deal ends a long-simmering diplomatic standoff between Pakistan and the United States. "The court first indicted him but the families later told court that they have accepted the...
05:33 PM, Mar 16, 2011
Lahore: A Pakistani court has formally indicted suspected CIA contractor Raymond Davis and charged him with double murder. Davis, who allegedly killed 2 people in Lahore on December 27, has sought a fresh probe into the matter, expressing dissatisfaction over the investigation so far. The US, meanwhile, has been pushing for Davis' release, arguing that he acted in self-defence and enjoys diplomatic immunity. The extraordinary swirl of recriminations that followed...
01:18 PM, Mar 16, 2011
Lahore: A Pakistani court on Tuesday adjourned till March 16 a case against suspected CIA contractor Raymond Davis, arrested for gunning down two men here in January, after defence lawyers sought more time to study documents filed by the prosecution. During proceedings conducted at the Kot Lakhpat Jail for security reasons, lawyers defending Davis told Additional District and Sessions Judge Yousuf Aujla that they needed more time to study documents...
04:11 PM, Mar 08, 2011
Islamabad: The US has made it clear that it can "get back to business" with Pakistan after the release of suspected CIA contractor Raymond Davis, whose arrest in Lahore on murder charges for gunning down two men has become a major irritant in bilateral ties. During meetings with Pakistan's top leadership on Monday, US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman said Washington wanted the immediate release of Davis...
02:59 PM, Mar 08, 2011
Washington: Voicing concern over the safety of its national Raymond Davis arrested in Lahore for double murder, the US has asked Pakistan to take appropriate security measures in the wake of multiple death threats received by him. "We are quite aware that he had received multiple death threats. We are concerned about his security, as we would be for any government official or prominent individual subject to those death threats,"...
12:01 PM, Mar 05, 2011
Lahore: In a setback to US efforts to seek early release of its national Raymond Davis arrested for double murder, a Pakistani court on Thursday rejected his claim that he has diplomatic immunity and said it would go ahead with his trial. During the last hearing of the case, 37-year-old Davis, a suspected CIA contractor, had filed an application in which he insisted that he had immunity. Lawyers representing the...
12:34 PM, Mar 03, 2011
Islamabad: Washington has turned down Pakistan's proposal to swap US official Raymond Davis, who shot dead two men in Lahore, with Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist who is serving a prison term in US for killing marines in Afghanistan, it was reported in Islamabad. Diplomatic Sources told the Dawn in Washington that Islamabad had taken up the proposal at "the highest level" in the Obama administration but was informed that...
11:40 AM, Mar 01, 2011
Islamabad: A Pakistani court on Saturday sent a US national, who was arrested in Peshawar for overstaying his visa, to jail on 14-day judicial remand. The ruling is likely to hit the already strained ties between Islamabad and Washington over the Raymond Davis affair. Aaron Mark De Haven, who was arrested on Friday, was remanded to judicial custody by the court in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Geo...
06:26 PM, Feb 26, 2011
Peshawar: As the tense US-Pak standoff over the arrest of an American for double murder continues, Pakistani security and intelligence operatives have detained yet another US national -- this time on charges of not possessing valid travel documents. The American, identified as Aaron deHaven, was detained in the posh University Town area of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on Friday, officials said. They said he was detained for...
11:25 AM, Feb 26, 2011
Washington: Stating that arrested American national Raymond Davis is a diplomat of the US Embassy, the White House today asked Pakistan to release him in accordance with the Vienna Convention which provides him the diplomatic immunity. "Davis was received by the government of Pakistan as an employee of the embassy and he was granted diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Conventions," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters. Pakistan and...
11:33 AM, Feb 25, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan's ISI spy agency is ready to split with the CIA because of its frustration over what it calls heavy-handed pressure and its anger over what it believes is a covert US operation involving hundreds of contract spies, according to an internal document obtained by The Associated Press and interviews with US and Pakistani officials. Such a move could seriously damage the US war effort in Afghanistan, limit a...
09:22 AM, Feb 25, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan's former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has accused the interior ministry of "mishandling" the case of US official Raymond Davis, who faces trial for killing two Pakistanis, by not letting the matter be confined to his ministry. "The Raymond Davis case was mishandled because interior ministry was made the focal point instead of keeping it confined to the foreign ministry," said Qureshi, removed as foreign minister in the...
01:02 PM, Feb 24, 2011
Lahore: A Pakistani court on Tuesday accepted the government's request to hold the trial of US official Raymond Davis, arrested for gunning down two men last month, in a heavily guarded jail for security reasons. The prosecution department of Punjab government had filed an application in the court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Yousuf Aujla asking for Davis' trial to be held in the high-security Kot Lakhpat Jail where...
03:05 PM, Feb 22, 2011
Islamabad: Fauzia Wahab, the spokesperson for Pakistan's ruling PPP, has resigned from her post, just days after she contended that an American official arrested for gunning down two men in Lahore was entitled to diplomatic immunity. Wahab, the information secretary of PPP, told the media in Karachi that she had resigned from the post in the wake of her comments that arrested US official Raymond Davis had immunity like other...
12:43 PM, Feb 20, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan government is exploring a possible "blood money deal" between American official Raymond Davis, arrested for double murder in Lahore, and relatives of the victims for ending the tense standoff with the US. Finding itself on a sticky wicket on the issue of freeing 37-year-old Davis, the government is looking at a face-saving option under which the relatives of the two men killed by the American agree to withdraw...
03:08 PM, Feb 18, 2011
Washington: The White House has said that US is currently focused on getting its diplomat Raymond Davis released from Pakistan, notwithstanding the setback it received at the hands of Pakistani courts. Davis, who held US diplomatic passport, is currently under arrest in Pakistan on charges of murder of two Pakistani nationals. "The United States on Pakistan is focused on ensuring that the diplomatic status of Mr Davis is honored and...
07:41 AM, Feb 18, 2011
Lahore: A Pakistani court on Thursday adjourned until next month a decision on whether an American who killed two local men had diplomatic immunity in a case that has pushed ties between two allies toward a breaking point. The Obama administration has piled pressure on leaders in Pakistan, an important US ally against Islamist militants, to arrange for Raymond Davis' release and avoid a precedent being set for trials of...
12:03 PM, Feb 17, 2011
Islamabad: After weeks of tense standoff, the US and Pakistan may be nearing an arrangement to repatriate US official Raymond Davis with the government expected to concede in court that the American qualifies for diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Convention. The government's counsel is expected to testify on Davis's diplomatic status when the Lahore High Court reconvenes on Thursday. The government's position, though not publicly disclosed, was finalised at a...
01:37 PM, Feb 16, 2011
