THE CONTRACTOR BY
RAYMOND DAVIS
REVIEW 26.10.17
Way back in 2011 everybody came to know about Raymond Davis when
across the world news was flashed in almost all the newspapers about a American
who shot dead two people in Lahore. The TV channels of Pakistan were bursting with all kind of
conspiracy theories. Pakistanis were simmering with anger that their nation was
being targeted by the brute Americans because they were Muslims. The terrorist
organisations in Pakistan were seeking death for all Americans. Raymond was
arrested for murder and there was a strong public opinion that he be hanged.
The Government of Pakistan was in a quandary. The Americans started to apply
heat on them. The Americans threatened that they would block all funds running
into billions incase their citizen was harmed in addition to punishing them
militarily. Then after a few months news emerged that Raymond was released and
flown back to the US. So what happened ? Everthing remained in wraps. After
nearly 6 years the cover from the mystery was lifted when Raymond Davis wrote
this book and related the inside story about what actually happened.
On 27.1.11 Raymond was driving his SUV in Lahore. He never
disclosed where he was going.
As he reached the busy Mozang chowk he noticed two men
riding on a motorcycle just in front of his SUV. Suddenly the person back
riding turned and whipped out a gun and aimed at Raymond. He perhaps was not
aware that the CIA man was a well trained shooter. In a flash Raymond pulled
his Glock 17 and fired several shots. The bullets travelled through the wind
shield leaving a hole and hit precisely the man aiming at him. He was killed
instantly. The motorbike skidded. Another bullet hit the rider and he also
collapsed. Raymond was later arrested in the market and then handed over to the
ISI the dreaded intelligence wing of the Pakistan military. Later it was known
that the assassins name were Haider and Faheem. They were from the LeT a known
terrorist organisation whose Chief is Hafeez Sayeed. The same terrorist organization
which targets India and is part of Pakistan security establishment. However
Pakistan never accepted that these two assassins belonged to the LeT.
The entire episode exposed the sham judiciary system of
Pakistan, the hand of ISI in every institution, Pakistan shameful dependency on
a foreign country, the powerful hold of terrorist organisations on the Govt and
public opinion.
The book draws attention to the following issues relating to
Pakistan :
1. Mr Butt was the public prosecutor. Raymond states that the
first time he was produced in the court the prosecutor told the judge that “Your honor, Mr. Davis shot two armed men
who tried to shoot him.milliseconds away from
doing just that."
The second time he told “Your honor, Mr. Davis shot two armed men, but they
meant him no harm."
The third time he claimed
that the two men David shot were ISI agent.
The fourth
time Butt claimed that the
two men on the motorcycle didn’t even have guns.
So what kind of court proceedings is this? Why the Judges
just keep quiet and does not question the prosecution in cases relating to
terrorists? Their conduct clearly shows that as Judges they are least bothered
to discharge their duties honestly to dispense justice. The few who perform
their duties have to run away from Pakistan. Remember the case of Mumtaz Qadri.
The judge Pervez Ali Shah who pronounced the death sentence fled the country.
The judiciary system of Pakistan is a junk show. Judges are threatened and they
encourage delaying tactics. Even dreaded terrorists like Lakhvi, Hafeez Sayeed,
Masood Azhar could not be convicted and are roaming free. No nation or citizen
is safe where such a tattered form of judiciary exist.
2. Pakistan heavy dependency on the US for funds have made it
a slave state. Sort of servant status who is ready to do anything provided he
is compensated. The total aid to Pakistan has crossed $80 billion. A staggering
amount. The worrying part is that most of this has never been utilised for the
purpose for which it was given. A major part of the billions were siphoned off.
Some went into the pockets of the Generals and some to raise and support the
terrorist organisations. The US never seriously demanded a explanation for
these fraudulent acts. Now Pakistan has become so dependent upon these generous
dole outs that it can even sell its self respect.
3. Jinnah is the Father of the Nation of this Islamic state.
However Jinnah's was just opposite to what a true Muslim should be. Jinnah wore hand-tailored suits and silk ties. He drove
imported cars. He never wore a beard. He drank whiskey. He ate pork. He mainly
spoke English. He married a non-Muslim. Apart from this Jinnah ideology was
communal. He divided India on the basis of religion in which one million were
killed and 20 million were displaced. Such a person has no right to be
respected and there you make him Father
of the Nation !
4.The Islamization of Pakistan
further took it into the dark ages. The book describes
"During his eleven-year
reign, Zia succeeded in changing life in Pakistan from the ground up. He used
government funds to build thousands of madrassas, religious schools that
teach an austere form of Islam and often promote jihad. Books that were
considered un-Islamic were heavily edited or removed from libraries. Western
culture was vilified. The national television network PTV replaced music videos
with patriotic songs. Theaters that showed Western films were shut down. Women
were ordered to cover their heads while in public, restricted from attending
school or playing sports, and saw their value in the eyes of the law literally
reduced to a fraction of a man’s. And every Muslim adult was required to pay zakat,
giving a small percentage of his wealth to his community’s poor each year"
A sort of Talibisation.
It is these thousands of Madrassas
which are factories producing extremists on a daily basis endangering the lives
of people not only in Pakistan but all over the world. Baitullah Mehsud the
creator of TTP also came out from one of these radical Madrassas.
5.The entire legal system was
changed by Zia.
" Zia
created the Federal Shariat Court and the Shariat Appellate Bench of the
Supreme Court and empowered them to decide cases based on the teachings of the
Koran. Overseen exclusively by Muslim judges, these courts could review any
existing law for its conformity with the injunctions of Islam and invalidate
those that didn’t pass muster."
Murder laws
were finally modified and the Qisas and
Diyat Ordinance, which required murders to be tried under Sharia law, was
adopted."
So today as matter stands the
legal system of Pakistan instead of being in line with modern times has been
shifted to medieval times. In such a situation a alleged victim can never
expect a fair trial when the entire system is heavily wrapped in a religious
fervour. Adding to this is the blasphemy law which can be applied any time to
victimize Non Muslims.
6. The hand of the all powerful
ISI even controls the Judges. Specially in terrorist related cases the Judge
trying the case has to pronounce judgments as per the instruction of the ISI.
Davis describes his final hearing in the court as under
"One of the few people allowed to stay behind was General Pasha, who’d
been continually texting Ambassador Munter, updating him about the court
proceedings. I imagine that at least one of his texts described the entrance of
a man in a suit, whom I recognized but whose name I couldn’t recall. As soon as
this man entered the courtroom, the room went silent. No one spoke a word. If a
cell phone rang, the person to whom it belonged got up and walked outside to
answer it. The only thing you could hear was the ceiling fan. The response this
man’s presence got was strange but also oddly familiar.
Carmela and my team of attorneys were sitting directly in front of the
cage, and I leaned forward, got Paul’s attention, and pointed to the man in the
suit. “Who is that guy?”
“Him? He’s an ISI colonel. Why?”
I nodded. “Yeah, I thought so. He questioned me at the police station in
Cantonment the day of the incident. I figured he was ISI. Why’s he here?”
“He’s a fixer.”
What else is required to prove that Pakistani Courts are
Kangaroo courts. The ISI man talks to the Judge then changes the Court to
Sharia court. Under the Sharia law a murderer can be tried under Diyat and so
Raymond was tried under it .
6. In all civilized society a murderer is tried for
murder and given punishment. In Pakistan a murderer can get away by paying money to relatives of
the murdered man. Isn't it strange? This is called blood money and is allowed
under Diyat of Sharia laws. Life is so cheap in Pakistan. Almost all honor
killings and terrorists escape punishment through this Diyat route.
Under pressure from the US the Pakistan
Government took this face saving route to free Raymond and instructed ISI to
implement it. However this requires consent of all the relatives and the ISI
ensured this on gun point. Each relative was paid $130,000
each for a total of $2,340,000, the largest amount of blood money ever awarded
in Pakistan.
The origin of
this hefty amount paid were never disclosed.
“The United
States did not pay any compensation,” Clinton reiterated.
Technically, what
she said was true. According to the New York Times, ISI paid the money,
and the US government later reimbursed the Pakistani government.
This book exposes
the jungle raj which is prevails in Pakistan.
Do read it to get
a idea of how Pakistan is a sinking country and how the terrorists rule there
with impunity.
ASHOK KUMAR
