PML-N leader petitions SCP: Hand over Raymond Davis to Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Zafar Ali Shah filed a petition to the Supreme Court on Monday, requesting that CIA operative Raymond Davis to be handed over to Pakistan.

The PML-N leader presented the stance in his petition that those who were mentioned in the book by Davis (‘The Contractor’) should be identified and interrogated.

He stated that Asif Zardari, Yousuf Raza Gillani, Ashfaq Pervez Kiani, and Shujah Pasha should be declared unfit for holding a government office. There should be a case against them under Article Six and their names should be placed on the Exit Control List, he further stated.

The applicant requested that all the police record of the Ramond Davis case should be gathered and his bail orders from the ATC should be declared null and void.

Zafar Ali Shah said that the US administration should be requested to hand over Davis and then a trial should take place against him under relevant laws of Pakistan.

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Raymond Davis — the CIA operative who sparked a diplomatic row after gunning down two men on the streets of Lahore in January 2011 – has penned his side of the story for the first time in a memoir titled 'The Contractor: How I Landed in a Pakistani Prison and Ignited a Diplomatic Crisis'.

According to Davis, John Kerry, Nawaz Sharif, Asif Zardari, former ISI chief Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha and Husain Haqqani helped in his release from the Kot Lakhpat Jail.