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Default RAYMOND DAVIS’S “THE CONTRACTOR” A Plethora of Calumnies

My article entitled "RAYMOND DAVIS’S “THE CONTRACTOR” A Plethora of Calumnies" published in September issue of World Times magazine.

http://jworldtimes.com/jwt2015/magaz...-of-calumnies/

Recently, there was a huge commotion in Pakistani media caused by the book entitled ‘The Contractor’ written by Raymond Allen Davis, who killed two men in Lahore, for which he remained incarcerated in 2011 for 49 days. This book is full of anti-Pakistan material and contains mudslinging on former Director General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha. General Pasha is not the main target though, as he was targeted actually to malign the ISI and Pakistan. It’s a bit strange that a book priced US$17 is being circulated on the internet free of cost, and publisher has not objected to it. On pages 59 to 64 of chapter 13 of this book, it is mentioned that Raymond Davis was facing a financial crisis. It means that he is not so rich, then why he distributed his book as freeware? Rehman Malik, who was the Interior Minister of Pakistan in 2011, has described this book as “a pack of lies” as no such role was played by the then DG ISI in the release of Raymond Davis, as claimed in this controversial book.

Raymond Davis, who is a psychopath and who has tried to commit suicide many a time, is not a literary person and, obviously, not capable of writing a book. It was sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or (as Mr Rehman Malik said) India’s RAW, and written by a ghostwriter. ISI is considered the world’s best intelligence agency and is known for its professionalism and Pakistanis love it a lot. This book is a part of American propaganda to change Pakistanis’ love for ISI and Pak Army into general abhorrence.

In 2008, Mike McConnell, the then Director of National Intelligence in Bush administration, confronted General Pasha. He accused Pakistan of not doing everything it could to rein in the Pakistani Taliban; he asserted that American intelligence had concluded that most Pakistani assets were still deployed against India. “How dare you tell me how our forces are deployed?” Pasha said in a fierce tone to McConnell.

Before 2011, there was a strong CIA network working in Pakistan, which entered the country on the pretext of eliminating terrorism. When Mr Davis was released in exchange of a payment of $2.4 million as blood money, there was also a condition that CIA agents working in Pakistan will also be removed. Information the ISI got out of Davis enabled Pakistan to make hundreds of arrests and shut down CIA’s information and covert action cells within Pakistan.

Here I present some rebuttals to the claims made in this book, one by one. On Page 44 (PDF format of the book), it’s written, “[T]elevision interviews with people who said the men I’d shot had robbed them earlier in the day indicated that the men were common thieves.” But, the reality is starkly different; no such interview was broadcast in which people would have said that victims were ‘common thieves’. On the same page, it is mentioned that Davis had diplomatic immunity because he carried a diplomatic passport. It is important to note that diplomatic immunity does not solely depend on carrying a diplomatic passport; it is awarded to that embassy staff whose names are provided by embassy to the host country, so they are dealt under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1961. Davis was not one of the embassy employees listed on January 25, 2011 i.e. two days before the incident. However, a revised list submitted a day after the incident on January 28 carried his name.

(It's not a complete article, to read complete, please open above mentioned link or read from uploaded scanned pages)

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Jamal Abdul Nasir
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