Monday, February 28, 2011
MNA Marvi Memon strongly criticized government’s late decision to conduct inquir
Press Release
28 February 2011
Islamabad
28 February 2011
Islamabad
MNA Marvi Memon strongly criticized government’s late decision to conduct inquiry into delays in raising timely objections over India’s efforts to secure international credit incentives to construct hyderopower projects Chutak and Nimoo-Bazgo in violation of Indus Water Treaty of 1960. She said government is in the habit of turning blind eye to important issues raised on the Floor of the House. She said that she has been raising Indian water terrorism issues in form of point of order, resolutions and on spot protests. She said as the Chairperson of National Assembly Standing Committee on Environment’s Sub-Committee on Climate Change she wrote a letter to Secretary Committee on July 17, 2010 on same subject to call committee meeting on this subject. Letter of this letter was also sent to Prime Minister but her efforts to raise this issue on time were sabotaged by government officials who blocked this meeting she said. Following is the text of the letter she wrote:
“We need to call an urgent meeting of the Environment sub committee on climate change to investigate how India has been given permission via a transboundary environmental impact assessment for its two hydropower projects: namely, Nimoo Bazgo and Chutak.
As per 37 clause b of UNFCCC (UN framework convention on climate change) rules of business it is mandatory for India to get approval from Pakistan before it starts getting carbon credit for the same projects. India has been earning carbon credits on these two projects since 2yrs.
Who are the officials within Ministry who gave this approval to India? Relevant officials of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Water and Power need to be called to the meeting to explain how this criminal negligence took place.
We would like them to bring transboundary EIAs clearance certificates of Chutak, Nimoo Bazgo and all hydropower projects being executed in IHK and Himachal Pradesh. And if those projects have not been given TIEAs by Pakistan we would like them to explain what efforts they have made to pursue this international violation diplomatically”.
As per 37 clause b of UNFCCC (UN framework convention on climate change) rules of business it is mandatory for India to get approval from Pakistan before it starts getting carbon credit for the same projects. India has been earning carbon credits on these two projects since 2yrs.
Who are the officials within Ministry who gave this approval to India? Relevant officials of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Water and Power need to be called to the meeting to explain how this criminal negligence took place.
We would like them to bring transboundary EIAs clearance certificates of Chutak, Nimoo Bazgo and all hydropower projects being executed in IHK and Himachal Pradesh. And if those projects have not been given TIEAs by Pakistan we would like them to explain what efforts they have made to pursue this international violation diplomatically”.
MNA Marvi Memon will be submitting the following privilege motion on Feb 28 2011 in National Assembly
I hereby submit in the National Assembly a privilege motion against:
1- CCPO Karachi for:
a) Tear gassing my peaceful protest with lower education staff at CM Sindh House on Feb 25 2011
b) Giving false FIRs against the protesters when they were not involved in any violence.
b) Giving false FIRs against the protesters when they were not involved in any violence.
2- Rafiq Engineer for:
a) Falsely claiming that government released the employees when we ourselves, assisted by Karachi Bar Association sorted their bail and got them released from Landhi jail
b) Fake assurance to me in woman police station that government would release them immediately
c) Accusing me of being law and order threat when government itself is responsible for injustices and for protecting terrorists.
b) Fake assurance to me in woman police station that government would release them immediately
c) Accusing me of being law and order threat when government itself is responsible for injustices and for protecting terrorists.
3- SP Seher for:
a) Directing police van to woman police station and for beating my fellow protestors, knowing fully well that as I had stated I would go with the last protestor if they touched him
b) making political statements against me as sitting MNA in media considering he should have been neutral servant of public.
b) making political statements against me as sitting MNA in media considering he should have been neutral servant of public.
4- CM Sindh for:
Making false assurances of regularization to Lower staff leading to our peaceful protests including bloodshed by government officials on Pakistanis fighting for their rights.
This is the third time in one year I have been tear gassed by this so called democratic government: NPIW protest March 2010 in Karachi, Lady Health Worker protest in June 2010 in Islamabad, and finally Lower Staff protest in Feb 2011 in Karachi). On previous occasions my privilege motions have not been allowed to be tabled in the house. Would appreciate if the same didn’t happen this time so that parliament’s supremacy can be proved.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Pakistan Demands Data on C.I.A. Contractors
K.M.Chaudary/Associated Press
Pakistanis chanted anti-American slogans on Friday during a rally in Lahore against Raymond A. Davis, an American held in the killing of two Pakistanis.
By JANE PERLEZ
Published: February 25, 2011
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan’s chief spy agency has demanded an accounting by the Central Intelligence Agency of all its contractors working in Pakistan, a fallout from the arrest last month of an American involved in surveillance of militant groups, a senior Pakistani intelligence official said Friday.
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Activists from Jamaat-e-Islami, an Islamic party, were involved in the rally against Mr. Davis, a contractor for the C.I.A.
Angered that the American, Raymond A. Davis, worked as a contractor in Pakistan on covert C.I.A. operations without the knowledge of the Pakistanis, the spy agency estimated that there were “scores” more such contractors “working behind our backs,” said the official, who requested anonymity in order to speak candidly about a delicate matter between the two countries.
In a slight softening of the Pakistani stance since Mr. Davis’s arrest, the official said that the American and Pakistani intelligence agencies needed to continue cooperation, and that Pakistan was prepared to put the episode in the past if the C.I.A. stopped treating its Pakistani counterparts as inferior.
“Treat us as allies, not as satellites,” said the official of the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI. “Respect, equality and trust are needed.”
George Little, a C.I.A. spokesman, said the American spy agency’s ties to the ISI “have been strong over the years, and when there are issues to sort out, we work through them.”
“That’s the sign of a healthy partnership,” Mr. Little said.
The arrest and detention of Mr. Davis, 36, after he shot and killed two motorcyclists in Lahore soured already testy relations between two governments that are supposed to have a common front in the fight against terrorism.
The top American and Pakistani military leaders, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, and the leader of the Pakistani Army, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, met this week in Oman, where the Davis case was discussed.
According to a report by a former head of the Pakistani Army, Gen. Jehangir Karamat, who runs a research and analysis center based in Lahore, both sides agreed to try to “arrest the downhill descent.”
Even so, the Pakistani intelligence community was divided over how quickly to settle the Davis case and how much to extract from the C.I.A., said a Pakistani official with intimate knowledge of the situation, who declined to be named because of the delicacy of the issue.
At a minimum, the ISI wants an accounting of all the contractors who work for the C.I.A. in roles that have not been defined to Pakistan and a general rewriting of the rules of engagement by the C.I.A. in Pakistan, the official said.
In another sign that the two spy services were trying to patch up their differences, Leon E. Panetta, the director of the C.I.A., spoke on Wednesday with Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the ISI director, about resolving Mr. Davis’s case, American and Pakistani officials said on Friday. Mr. Davis, who appeared in handcuffs on Friday for a hearing in a closed courtroom at the jail where he is being held in Lahore, faces possible murder charges.
The Obama administration insists that Mr. Davis has diplomatic immunity and should be released. The Pakistani government has left the determination on diplomatic immunity to the Foreign Office and a hearing before the Lahore High Court on March 14.
Some senior Pakistani intelligence officers were unwilling to have Mr. Davis released under almost any circumstances, said the official with knowledge of the split in the intelligence community.
He said others wanted to use the Davis case as a bargaining chip to get the withdrawal of a civil lawsuit filed in Brooklyn last year that implicates the ISI chief, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, in the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India.
The demand for the C.I.A. to acknowledge the number of contractors in Pakistan was driven by the suspicion that the American spy service had slipped many such secret operatives into Pakistan in the past six months, the senior ISI official said.
The increase occurred after a directive last July by the Pakistani civilian government, which is often at odds with the ISI, to its Washington embassy to expedite visas without supervision from the ISI or the Ministry of Interior, the senior ISI official said.
The behavior of people like Mr. Davis is deeply embarrassing to the ISI because it makes the agency “look like fools” in the eyes of the anti-American Pakistani public, the ISI official said.
The Davis case made it hard to explain to Pakistanis why the ISI was cooperating with Washington, he said.
The clampdown on American contractors by the Pakistani authorities appeared to be under way Friday with the arrest of an American citizen, Aaron Mark DeHaven, in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
The Peshawar police said Mr. DeHaven was detained because he had overstayed his business visa after his request for an extension last October was turned down.
There was no immediate accusation that Mr. DeHaven worked for the American government, a security official in Peshawar said. But the arrest of Mr. DeHaven, who is married to a Pakistani woman, appears to be a signal that the Pakistani authorities have decided to expel Americans they have doubts about.
The security official said Mr. DeHaven owned a firm, Catalyst Services in Peshawar, that rented houses for Americans in the city.
The American Embassy in Islamabad said in a statement that it did not have details about Mr. DeHaven but that it was arranging consular access for him through the Pakistani government.
During his first months in Pakistan in early 2010, Mr. Davis, the contractor for the C.I.A., was attached to the American Consulate in Peshawar and lived in a house with other Americans in an upscale neighborhood, according to Pakistani officials.
At the 20-minute court hearing on Friday, Mr. Davis told the judge he would not take part in the proceedings because he had diplomatic immunity, Pakistani officials told reporters later.
He refused to sign the charge sheet presented to him, the officials said. The Obama administration insists that Mr. Davis acted in self-defense when the two motorcyclists tried to rob him.
In the charge sheet, the Pakistani police said Mr. Davis shot the motorcyclists multiple times from inside his car, and then stepped from the car and continued shooting with his Glock pistol. Mr. Davis then drove from the scene and was arrested several miles away, the police said.
At Friday Prayers in Lahore and in Islamabad, the capital, anti-American sermons, in some cases laced with references to Mr. Davis, were common.
Hafiz Saeed, the founder of the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which Mr. Davis is believed to have been conducting surveillance on, said the American was “a spy, committing terrorism, helping in drone attacks.”
Banners reading “Hang Davis” and “No immunity to Davis” were strung across the road adjacent to Mr. Saeed’s headquarters.
Ismail Khan contributed reporting from Peshawar, Pakistan, and Waqar Gillani from Lahore, Pakistan.
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NADEEM MALIKپارلیمنٹیرین کو پاکستان میں موجود امریکیوں کے بارے میں کوئی جواب نہیں دیا جاتا۔ماروی میمنہمیں آج تک ریمنڈ ڈیوس کیس کی پوری معلومات کا علم نہیں ہے۔روحیل اصغرپاکستان میں ہر وقت فوج کے حکومت پر قبضہ کرنے کا خطرہ موجود رہتا ہے۔ماروی میمن Islamabad Tonight - 22nmd Feb 11 - 1www.youtube.com پارلیمنٹیرین کو پاکستان میں موجود امریکیوں کے بارے میں کوئی جواب نہیں دیا جاتا۔ماروی میمن ہمیں آج تک ریمنڈ ڈیوس کیس کی پوری معلومات کا علم نہیں ہے۔روحیل اصغر پاکستان میں ہر وقت فوج کے حکومت پر قبضہ کرنے کا خطرہ موجود رہتا ہے۔ماروی میمن
NADEEM MALIKمسلم لیگ ن جمہوری حکومت کو گرانے میں دلچسپی نہیں رکھتی۔روحیل اصغرلوگوں کو ہر مسئلے میں انصاف کے لیے سپریم کورٹ جانا پڑتا ہے۔ماروی میمنمسنگ پرسنز کے مسئلے پر پارلیمنٹ کوئی متحرک کردار ادا نہیں کر ہی۔ماروی میمنہمارے بہت سارے سوالات کو سپیکر رد کر دیتے ہیں۔ماروی میمن Islamabad Tonight - 22nmd Feb 11 - 2 www.youtube.com مسلم لیگ ن جمہوری حکومت کو گرانے میں دلچسپی نہیں رکھتی۔روحیل اصغر لوگوں کو ہر مسئلے میں انصاف کے لیے سپریم کورٹ جانا پڑتا ہے۔ماروی میمن مسنگ پرسنز کے مسئلے پر پارلیمنٹ کوئی متحرک کردار ادا نہیں کر ہی۔ماروی میمن ہمارے بہت سارے سوالات کو سپیکر رد کر دیتے ہیں۔ماروی میمن
NADEEM MALIKجن لوگوں کو فیصلہ کرنا ہوتا ہے وہ نہ کریں تو کسی کو تو نوٹس لینا پڑتا ہے۔روحیل اصغرحکومت کی ناکامی کہ وجہ سے سپریم کورٹ کو چینی کی قیمت مقرر کرنا پڑی۔رشید گوڈیلنواز شریف اس وقت حکومت سمبھالنے کے لیے تیار نہیں ہیں۔ماروی میمنجب ایم کیو ایم ناراض تھی تو نواز شریف اسے ساتھ ملا کر حکومت گرا سکتے تھے۔روحیل اصغر Islamabad Tonight - 22nmd Feb 11 - 3 www.youtube.com جن لوگوں کو فیصلہ کرنا ہوتا ہے وہ نہ کریں تو کسی کو تو نوٹس لینا پڑتا ہے۔روحیل اصغر حکومت کی ناکامی کہ وجہ سے سپریم کورٹ کو چینی کی قیمت مقرر کرنا پڑی۔رشید گوڈیل نواز شریف اس وقت حکومت سمبھالنے کے لیے تیار نہیں ہیں۔ماروی میمن جب ایم کیو ایم ناراض تھی تو نواز شریف اسے ساتھ ملا کر حکومت گرا سکتے تھ... Share · Promote
The politicisation of development
The writer is a PML-Q MNA marvi.memon@tribune.com.pk
There is tremendous pressure on nuclear Pakistan to deliver as a developing state and to not become, as many think, a failed state. If it doesn’t deliver, then what has happened in Egypt could well happen here. The government needs to truly govern for its people and be able to provide the services that citizens would expect any government to.
When I meet people in villages, I find that many are under the wrong impression that if some member of parliament has initiated a development scheme in their area, they are indebted to that MP for life and must also vote for him. The fact of the matter is that it is the right of every citizen to be provided such amenities and services. And for this, taxes are collected by the state.
Unfortunately in Pakistan, many constituencies are developed only on the basis of whether or not they voted for a particular party — usually the one that is in government. And if they did not, then, more often than not, they get left out of development schemes. This politicisation of development has to end. Every Pakistani needs a school, a basic health unit, access to clean drinking water, gas, electricity, roads and so on.
The whole concept of MNAs and MPAs being given funds for carrying out development work in their constituencies needs to end. For instance, I recently investigated the state of my own development schemes and, much to my dismay, found that, in most instances, they are incomplete (sometimes less than half the work has been completed) and shoddy building material has been used.
When I meet these people, I try to explain to them that they wouldn’t need to scream for basics and be living a life of squalor if their leaders were sincere. And the sense I get of how the people feel as a result of these exchanges is that they know that their national wealth is being squandered and looted and they are fed up. But they don’t know how to revolt against this corruption, and they also don’t know who will lead them.
For this, they need to be able to distinguish between sincere leadership and those who simply use the votes of the electorate for their own material interests and gain. To prevent this from happening, development funds should not be given to MPs directly. A separate mechanism should be devised, which ensures that they are used in a transparent manner. And if there is any embezzlement, then those who squander them should be held accountable and made to reimburse the national exchequer.
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مستقبل کی فصل کے لیے ماضی کے جینز
دورِ حاضر میں فصلیں کئی گنا پیداواری صلاحیت رکھتی ہیں
انسانی خوراک میں اضافے کے لیے ماہرینِ نباتات اب پودوں کی قدیم نسلوں پر انحصار کر رہے ہیں اور امریکی محققین کا کہنا ہے کہ وہ چاول اور مکئی جیسی فصلوں کی قدیم اقسام کے جینز استعمال کر کے مستقبل کے لیے سخت جان اور بیماریوں کے خلاف زیادہ قوتِ مدافعت رکھنے والی فصلوں کی تیاری پر کام کر رہے ہیں۔
واشنگٹن میں منعقدہ سائنسی ترقی کی امریکی ایسوسی ایشن کے اجلاس میں سائنسدانوں کا کہنا ہے کہ وہ ایسی فصلیں اگانا چاہتے ہیں کہ جو سیلاب اور قحط کا مقابلہ کر سکیں اور ان کے لیے زیادہ کھاد بھی درکار نہ ہو۔
سائنسدانوں نے دعویٰ کیا کہ چاول، گندم اور مکئی کی قدیم اقسام میں ایسے جین ملے ہیں جن کی مدد سے ان فصلوں کی موجودہ اقسام کی، بیماریوں کے خلاف قوتِ مدافعت بڑھائی جا سکتی ہے۔
کئی نسلی تبدیلیوں کے بعد دورِ حاضر میں انسانی خوراک کی فصلیں، کئی گنا پیداواری صلاحیت رکھتی ہیں۔ لیکن جدید جینیاتی تکنیک نے ثابت کر دیا ہے، کہ محض پیداواری صلاحیت پر توجہ دیتے ہوئے، انسانوں نے فصلوں کی ایسی جینیاتی صلاحیتوں کو متاثر کر دیا، جو دورِ حاضر کی اہم ضرورت ہیں۔
پرانے جینز کو دورِ حاضر کی فصلوں کی اقسام کے جینز کے ساتھ ملا کر باصلاحیت فصلوں کا حصول، مستقبل کا ایک بڑا چیلنج ثابت ہو گا۔
ائین گراہم
چاول کی قدیم اقسام کا مطالعہ کرنے والے محققین کو پتہ چلا ہے کہ قدیم دور کے چاول میں بیماریوں کا مقابلہ کرنے، اور سیلاب اور خشک سالی جیسی آفات کو برداشت کرنے کی صلاحیت نسبتاً زیادہ تھی۔ ایک محقق، پروفیسر ائین گراہم کا خیال ہے کہ قدیم فصلوں کے جین کے ذریعے دورِ حاضر کی اقسام کی خصوصیات بحال کی جا سکتی ہیں۔
ان کے مطابق’جب ہماری آج کل کی خوراک پر نظر ڈالی جائے تو ان میں گندم، مکئی اور سویا بین عام ہیں۔ دورِ حاضر میں ہمارے پاس ان فصلوں کا بڑا محدود جینیاتی ڈھانچہ ہے۔ لیکن اگر ہم قدیم دور کی جنگلی پودوں کے جین دیکھیں، تو اُن میں بیرونی مداخلت کے بغیر ہی، بہتر افزائش کی صلاحیت تھی۔ اِن پرانے جینز کو دورِ حاضر کی فصلوں کی اقسام کے جینز کے ساتھ ملا کر باصلاحیت فصلوں کا حصول، مستقبل کا ایک بڑا چیلنج ثابت ہو گا‘۔
سائنسدانوں کی یہ بھی کوشش ہے کہ وہ نئے اور پرانے جینز کے امتزاج سے فصلوں کی ایسی اقسام تیار کریں جنہیں کم سے کم کھاد کی ضرورت پڑے، تاکہ غریب کسانوں کے اخراجات کم ہو سکیں اور ماحول کو آلودہ ہونے سے بھی بچایا جا سکے۔
Monday, February 21, 2011
Islamabad Tonight - 21st Feb 11
TOPIC- SPAT BETWEEN PML (N) & PPPP
GUESTS- KHWAJA SAAD RAFIQ, SHEIKH RASHEED AHMED, SAMSAM BUKHARI,
KHWAJA SAAD RAFIQ OF PML (N) said that if ten point agenda is not followed by the government then PML (N) will expel People's Party ministers from the Punjab government. He said that expelling PPP from Punjab government will be the first step. He said that in the next step PML (N) will put more pressure on the PPP government to abide by PML (N) ten points. He said that PML (N) workers raise argument to expel PPP from Punjab government. He said that Pervez Musharaf caused break up of PML (N) by force.
SHEIKH RASHEED AHMED OF AML said that PML (N) will only expel People's party ministers from Punjab and nothing else will happen. He called the cordial attitude of PML (Q) members towards PML (N) LOTACRACY. He said that the violation of COD was started when Benazir Bhutto was alive. He said that ten point agenda is to fool people of Pakistan and both PML (N) and PPP are cooperative with each other. He said that PML (N) and PPP do not want to see a third political power in the country beside them. He said that ten points of PML (N) have nothing to do with people of Pakistan. He said that for three years no PML (N) worker was allowed to go to Raiwind. He said that PML (N) is inviting its workers to Raiwind now because their leaders need their support. He said that some political families have made people of Pakistan their slaves. He said that if PML (N) considers that PPP government is incapable then they should demand new elections in the country. He said that both federal and provincial governments have been failed to deliver and he will rally against the government from 11th of the March this year.
SAMSAM AHMED BUKHARI OF PPPP said that their workers also raise argument to leave Punjab government. He said that personally he will like to see friendly relationship with PML (N). He said beside Pervez Musharaf another dictator Zia Ul Haq also harmed political set up of the country. He said that parliament already have approved ten point agenda of PML (N) in different shape.
American who sparked diplomatic crisis over Lahore shooting was CIA spy
• Raymond Davis employed by CIA 'beyond shadow of doubt'
• Former soldier charged with murder over deaths of two men
• Davis accused of shooting one man twice in the back as he fled
• Special report: A CIA spy and a diplomatic whirlwind
• Former soldier charged with murder over deaths of two men
• Davis accused of shooting one man twice in the back as he fled
• Special report: A CIA spy and a diplomatic whirlwind
The American who shot dead two men in Lahore, triggering a diplomatic crisis between Pakistan and the US, is a CIA agent who was on assignment at the time.
Raymond Davis has been the subject of widespread speculation since he opened fire with a semi-automatic Glock pistol on the two men who had pulled up in front of his car at a red light on 25 January.
Pakistani authorities charged him with murder, but the Obama administration has insisted he is an "administrative and technical official" attached to its Lahore consulate and has diplomatic immunity.
Based on interviews in the US and Pakistan, the Guardian can confirm that the 36-year-old former special forces soldier is employed by the CIA. "It's beyond a shadow of a doubt," said a senior Pakistani intelligence official. The revelation may complicate American efforts to free Davis, who insists he was acting in self-defence against a pair of suspected robbers, who were both carrying guns.
Pakistani prosecutors accuse the spy of excessive force, saying he fired 10 shots and got out of his car to shoot one man twice in the back as he fled. The man's body was found 30 feet from his motorbike.
"It went way beyond what we define as self-defence. It was not commensurate with the threat," a senior police official involved in the case told the Guardian.
The Pakistani government is aware of Davis's CIA status yet has kept quiet in the face of immense American pressure to free him under the Vienna convention. Last week President Barack Obama described Davis as "our diplomat" and dispatched his chief diplomatic troubleshooter, Senator John Kerry, to Islamabad. Kerry returned home empty-handed.
Many Pakistanis are outraged at the idea of an armed American rampaging through their second-largest city. Analysts have warned of Egyptian-style protests if Davis is released. The government, fearful of a backlash, says it needs until 14 March to decide whether Davis enjoys immunity.
A third man was crushed by an American vehicle as it rushed to Davis's aid. Pakistani officials believe its occupants were CIA because they came from the house where Davis lived and were armed.
The US refused Pakistani demands to interrogate the two men and on Sunday a senior Pakistani intelligence official said they had left the country. "They have flown the coop, they are already in America," he said.
ABC News reported that the men had the same diplomatic visas as Davis. It is not unusual for US intelligence officers, like their counterparts round the world, to carry diplomatic passports.
The US has accused Pakistan of illegally detaining him and riding roughshod over international treaties. Angry politicians have proposed slashing Islamabad's $1.5bn (£900m) annual aid.
But Washington's case is hobbled by its resounding silence on Davis's role. He served in the US special forces for 10 years before leaving in 2003 to become a security contractor. A senior Pakistani official said he believed Davis had worked with Xe, the firm formerly known as Blackwater.
Pakistani suspicions about Davis's role were stoked by the equipment police confiscated from his car: an unlicensed pistol, a long-range radio, a GPS device, an infrared torch and a camera with pictures of buildings around Lahore.
"This is not the work of a diplomat. He was doing espionage and surveillance activities," said the Punjab law minister, Rana Sanaullah, adding he had "confirmation" that Davis was a CIA employee.
A number of US media outlets learned about Davis's CIA role but have kept it under wraps at the request of the Obama administration. A Colorado television station, 9NEWS, made a connection after speaking to Davis's wife. She referred its inquiries to a number in Washington which turned out to be the CIA. The station removed the CIA reference from its website at the request of the US government.
Some reports, quoting Pakistani intelligence officials, have suggested that the men Davis killed, Faizan Haider, 21, and Muhammad Faheem, 19, were agents of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency (ISI) and had orders to shadow Davis because he crossed a "red line".
A senior police official confirmed US claims that the men were petty thieves – investigators found stolen mobiles, foreign currency and weapons on them – but did not rule out an intelligence link.
A senior ISI official denied the dead men worked for the spy agency but admitted the CIA relationship had been damaged. "We are a sovereign country and if they want to work with us, they need to develop a trusting relationship on the basis of equality. Being arrogant and demanding is not the way to do it," he said.
Tensions between the spy agencies have been growing. The CIA Islamabad station chief was forced to leave in December after being named in a civil lawsuit. The ISI was angered when its chief, General Shuja Pasha, was named in a New York lawsuit related to the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Although the two spy services co-operate in the CIA's drone campaign along the Afghan border, there has not been a drone strike since 23 January – the longest lull since June 2009. Experts are unsure whether both events are linked.
Davis awaits his fate in Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore. Pakistani officials say they have taken exceptional measures to ensure his safety, including ringing the prison with paramilitary Punjab Rangers. The law minister, Sanaullah, said Davis was in a "high security zone" and was receiving food from visitors from the US consulate.
Sanaullah said 140 foreigners were in the facility, many on drug charges. Press reports have speculated that the authorities worry the US could try to spring Davis in a "Hollywood-style sting". "All measures for his security have been taken," said the ISI official. "He's as safe as can be."
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