LAHORE: The law minister in Punjab province said prosecutors would go to court today to demand a murder trial for a US official in a case that has inflamed relations with Washington.
| Something very hinky is going down here. Mr. Davis is supposed to be a diplomat. He should already have been put on a plane and sent home. |
| He's a bloody kaffir who is insisting on being treated as equal to the Final Religion. He can sit there and learn his place. |
On January 27, Raymond Davis confessed to shooting dead two Pakistani men in self-defence in broad daylight on the streets of Lahore. A third Pakistani was run over and killed by a US consular vehicle coming to collect Davis, who was instead taken into Pakistani police custody.
Washington has demanded Davis' immediate release, saying he acted in self-defence and has diplomatic immunity.
| That shouldn't be open to question. He either has a diplomatic passport or he doesn't. |
An eight-day police remand expires today, when the judge is expected to decide whether Davis should be transferred from police custody to judicial remand in prison, a precursor to a trial.
Rana Sanaullah, law minister in Punjab, said the prosecution would seek murder charges against him on Friday. "Investigators will complete their job tonight (Thursday) and tomorrow we will frame murder charges against him," Sanaullah told AFP. "Another case of carrying unlicensed weapons would also be taken up against him."
A spokeswoman for the US embassy said the detained American would have legal counsel at the court appearance on Friday.
| Where's the ambassador in all this? |
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