The Pak government paid a hefty blood money to secure the release of a private US defence contractor who killed two Pakistani citizens in 2011, Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif has admitted.
Asif was responding to a question in the senate by Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl’s (JUI-F) Senator Hafiz Hamdullah who demanded debate into the release of Raymond Davis who went scot-free after killing two Pakistanis in Lahore in 2011.
Davis, 42, was arrested in Lahore in 2011 on charges of killing two Pakistani citizens and thus kicked off a huge diplomatic crisis between the two countries.
Asif said those who played a role in his release “might have done so for their own vested interests”.
The CIA contractor spent 49 days in Pakistani custody and was released on March 16, 2011, after the families of the two slain men reached an agreement with the government.
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