Consular Ops/CIA of US and ISI of Pakistan incident is likely to lead into a diplomatic row where Pakistan is likely to lose.
Every one knows what ‘undeclared assets’ do in a Foreign Country.
Unfortunately tailers got spotted by the Asset and he had to open fire.
Under normal circumstances this would have been disposed off as a tit for tat Diplomatic expulsions on both sides.
Complicating the issue is the equation of Military,ISI,Civilian Government between each other and against one another and one group against another.
As the relations are strained this has come out.
Or is it some thing else as Black operations go?
The scene could have been scripted in a Hollywood action thriller: For two hours at the end of last month in Lahore, U.S. diplomat Raymond Davis was closely pursued by two visibly armed men on a motorbike. He noticed them tailing him from a restaurant to an ATM, and through the crowded streets of Pakistan’s second city. They were close by when, in a crowded intersection, Davis produced his own handgun and fired seven shots. The diplomat was apparently a crack shot, and all seven bullets found their mark, killing his two pursuers. Davis then called for back-up, and a four-wheel-drive vehicle raced onto the scene, striking a Pakistani bystander who was killed by the impact. But the people in the vehicle, whose identities remain unknown, escaped from the scene having failed to retrieve Davis, who was later arrested nearby. In custody, Davis has told Pakistani authorities that he acted in self-defense, and has invoked diplomatic immunity, an international convention that protects diplomats from prosecution in the countries where they serve.
Two weeks later, Davis remains behind bars, facing murder charges. And the incident has plunged the already troubled relationship between Washington and Islamabad to a new low. Pakistani officials say Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week canceled a meeting with her Pakistani counterpart and is considering withdrawing an invitation for President Asif Ali Zardari to a trilateral summit with Afghan President Hamid Karzai later this month. But at home, Zardari faces intense pressure to prosecute Davis. The hitherto obscure employee of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad has now become a lightning rod for the fierce anti-American sentiments shared by an overwhelming majority of Pakistanis.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2047149,00.html#ixzz1DefJkk2S
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National security advisor Tom Donilon told Pakistani envoy Hussain Haqqani that the Obama administration will “kick him out of the US”, close consulates in Pakistan and cancel President Asif Ali Zardari’s upcoming visit to Washington if US official Raymond Davis is not released by Friday, ABC News channel quoted two unnamed Pakistani officials as saying.
Donilon reportedly conveyed the warning to Haqqani on Monday evening.
US tells Pakistan to release Davis or its envoy would be kicked out: Report – The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/US-tells-Pakistan-to-release-Davis-or-its-envoy-would-be-kicked-out-Report-/articleshow/7475170.cms#ixzz1Df3peCVa
The two men gunned down by US national Raymond Davis in Lahore last month were working for ISI which was tailing the American because he was spying and “encroaching on their turf”, according to a media report. The two men were sent to track Davis by the ISI, which believed that he had crossed “a red line” and needed to be followed, four unnamed Pakistani officials were quoted as saying by ABC News. The men Davis shot had been following him for at least two hours and recorded some of his movements on their cell phone cameras, one of the Pakistani officials said.
Read more: Two men killed by American in Lahore worked for ISI: Report – The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Two-men-killed-by-American-in-Lahore-worked-for-ISI-Report-/articleshow/7468082.cms#ixzz1Df4118br
