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Pakistan treats America like a "limitless ATM" and most of the US aid to the country goes to the military's kitty, a private US defence contractor who was responsible for one the worst bilateral tensions, has said.

A total of 331 US officials in Pakistan, most of them suspected of engaging in espionage under diplomatic cover, have been "identified to leave the country" under a secret deal between the two sides for release of American national Raymond Davis, a media report said today.Pakistani authorities have agreed not to declare these US officials "persona ...

The release of CIA security contractor Raymond Davis, who killed two people in Lahore and paid "blood money" to their kin to escape trial, made Pakistan a laughing stock before the world, an opposition leader has said.Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, leader of the opposition in the National Assembly and member of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), t...

About a dozen activists of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's Tehrik-e-Insaf party and some policemen were injured during a protest on Wednesday against a Pakistani court's decision to free CIA contractor Raymond Davis, arrested for gunning down two men in January.The Tehrik-e-Insaf activists gathered outside the Lahore Press Club in the even...

Pakistani authorities have turned down a US request to shift suspected CIA contractor Raymond Davis from Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail to the Governor House for his safety, according to a media report published on Monday."After examining the different aspects of the US demand, Punjab government refused it and termed it unworkable," an unnamed official ...

A criminal court agreed on Thursday to delay pressing murder charges against the CIA operative, Raymond L Davis, ruling that that lawyers for Mr Davis should have more time to prepare for the case.A Pakistani lawyer appeared on behalf of Mr Davis for the first time in pretrial proceedings held in the Lahore Central jail where he has been held since...

Pakistani security and intelligence operatives detained a US national in this northwestern city on Friday for not possessing valid travel documents and took him to an undisclosed location for interrogation, officials said.The American, identified as Aaron deHaven, was detained in the posh University Town area of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakh...

American official Raymond Davis, arrested for double murder, had "close links" with Taliban and was "instrumental" in recruiting youths for it, the Pakistani media claimed today, close on the heels of reports in the US that he was a CIA agent tracking movements of terror groups like the LeT.     The "close ties" of 37-year-old D...

A Pakistani court today 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...

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani today reacted to reports that a US official arrested for shooting two Pakistani men was a CIA operative by saying that his government would handle the matter without compromising national interests."You should not be worried. There is a responsible government and it is working in the country's interest," Gilani sai...

Pakistan's former Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi today asserted that US official Raymond Davis could not be granted "blanket immunity" as desired by the Americans, even as a report said that the two countries were close to resolving their tiff over the issue.Qureshi, who is bitter over his replacement as the foreign minister, said he was pre...

Former Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has spoken out after he was sacked amid speculation that his ouster came after he refused to back his party in granting diplomatic status to US official Raymond Davis who allegedly shot down two men in Lahore.Qureshi told Pakistani daily The News that according to official records and experts in...

The US today denied as "simply inaccurate" an American media report that the Obamaadministration had threatened to  evict Pakistan's Ambassador in Washington and call off President Asif Ali Zardari's upcoming visit if a US official arrested for murder is not released."ABC News carried a story regarding a conversation in Washington between seni...

US President Barack Obama's National Security Adviser summoned Pakistan's Ambassador to deliver a threat from the President release the American official arrested for gunning down two men in Lahore by Friday or "face the consequences", according to a media report.National Security Adviser Tom Donilon told Ambassador Hussain Haqqani that the adminis...

Pakistani police say their investigation into an American's fatal shooting of two Pakistanis in January has found that the man did not act in self-defense.Lahore police chief Aslam Tareen says that Raymond Davis carried out "an intentional and cold-blooded murder." The U.S. insists he has diplomatic immunity from any charge.Davis' arrest has strain...

Pakistan treats America like a "limitless ATM" and most of the US aid to the country goes to the military's kitty, a private US defence contractor who was responsible for one the worst bilateral tensions, has said.

A total of 331 US officials in Pakistan, most of them suspected of engaging in espionage under diplomatic cover, have been "identified to leave the country" under a secret deal between the two sides for release of American national Raymond Davis, a media report said today.Pakistani authorities have agreed not to declare these US officials "persona ...

The release of CIA security contractor Raymond Davis, who killed two people in Lahore and paid "blood money" to their kin to escape trial, made Pakistan a laughing stock before the world, an opposition leader has said.Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, leader of the opposition in the National Assembly and member of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), t...

About a dozen activists of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's Tehrik-e-Insaf party and some policemen were injured during a protest on Wednesday against a Pakistani court's decision to free CIA contractor Raymond Davis, arrested for gunning down two men in January.The Tehrik-e-Insaf activists gathered outside the Lahore Press Club in the even...

Pakistani authorities have turned down a US request to shift suspected CIA contractor Raymond Davis from Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail to the Governor House for his safety, according to a media report published on Monday."After examining the different aspects of the US demand, Punjab government refused it and termed it unworkable," an unnamed official ...

A criminal court agreed on Thursday to delay pressing murder charges against the CIA operative, Raymond L Davis, ruling that that lawyers for Mr Davis should have more time to prepare for the case.A Pakistani lawyer appeared on behalf of Mr Davis for the first time in pretrial proceedings held in the Lahore Central jail where he has been held since...

Pakistani security and intelligence operatives detained a US national in this northwestern city on Friday for not possessing valid travel documents and took him to an undisclosed location for interrogation, officials said.The American, identified as Aaron deHaven, was detained in the posh University Town area of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakh...

American official Raymond Davis, arrested for double murder, had "close links" with Taliban and was "instrumental" in recruiting youths for it, the Pakistani media claimed today, close on the heels of reports in the US that he was a CIA agent tracking movements of terror groups like the LeT.     The "close ties" of 37-year-old D...

A Pakistani court today 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...

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani today reacted to reports that a US official arrested for shooting two Pakistani men was a CIA operative by saying that his government would handle the matter without compromising national interests."You should not be worried. There is a responsible government and it is working in the country's interest," Gilani sai...

Pakistan's former Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi today asserted that US official Raymond Davis could not be granted "blanket immunity" as desired by the Americans, even as a report said that the two countries were close to resolving their tiff over the issue.Qureshi, who is bitter over his replacement as the foreign minister, said he was pre...

Former Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has spoken out after he was sacked amid speculation that his ouster came after he refused to back his party in granting diplomatic status to US official Raymond Davis who allegedly shot down two men in Lahore.Qureshi told Pakistani daily The News that according to official records and experts in...

The US today denied as "simply inaccurate" an American media report that the Obamaadministration had threatened to  evict Pakistan's Ambassador in Washington and call off President Asif Ali Zardari's upcoming visit if a US official arrested for murder is not released."ABC News carried a story regarding a conversation in Washington between seni...

US President Barack Obama's National Security Adviser summoned Pakistan's Ambassador to deliver a threat from the President release the American official arrested for gunning down two men in Lahore by Friday or "face the consequences", according to a media report.National Security Adviser Tom Donilon told Ambassador Hussain Haqqani that the adminis...

Pakistani police say their investigation into an American's fatal shooting of two Pakistanis in January has found that the man did not act in self-defense.Lahore police chief Aslam Tareen says that Raymond Davis carried out "an intentional and cold-blooded murder." The U.S. insists he has diplomatic immunity from any charge.Davis' arrest has strain...