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The man, named locally as Raymond Davis, has been held since Thursday, and<br />
claims he acted in self-defence. However, the case has provoked an<br />
outpouring of anger in Pakistan. Thousands of people took to the streets at<br />
the weekend to demand Davis be hanged, while local journalists have<br />
speculated on whether Davis is part of secret American spy network.<br />
It is the latest blow to an awkward alliance between Pakistan – where anti-<br />
American sentiment runs high – and the US as they battle fight Taliban and<br />
al-Qaeda militants. Yesterday, a senior judge in Lahore ruled out an early<br />
deal to allow Davis to go home.<br />
Ijaz Ahmed Chaudry, Lahore High Court Chief Justice, placed Davis on the<br />
country's exit control list and said there would be an investigation into<br />
whether he had diplomatic immunity.<br />
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8297035/Pakistanreject-US-demands-of-diplomatic-immunity-over-murder-suspect.html<br />
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Pak warns spy agencies over increasing 'illegal disappearances'<br />
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(Sify) Pakistan's Supreme Court has observed that the country's lawenforcement<br />
agencies have been flagrantly violating the court orders<br />
despite repeated warnings.<br />
"The complaints of missing citizens instead of decreasing have increased,<br />
therefore it needed to be checked," The Nation quoted a three-member bench<br />
of the apex court, as saying. The court observed that all the State<br />
functionaries, agencies and government officers were subject to the law and<br />
Constitution, and that they were supposed to act o<strong>nl</strong>y in accordance with<br />
the law and command of the Constitution.<br />
"Violations whereof may entail legal consequences if the mandate of the law<br />
is not adhered to strictly," it added. The Supreme Court directed its<br />
office to sit with the Attorney General office's staff and prepare a<br />
separate list of cases "showing connection of police and spy agencies"<br />
regarding the complaints of picking up of citizens by law-enforcement<br />
agencies, so that an 'appropriate legal order against the responsible<br />
officers could be ordered' in order to proceed against them under the<br />
criminal law.<br />
http://www.sify.com/news/pak-sc-warns-police-spy-agencies-over-increasingillegal-disappearances-news-international-lb2qEehgfea.html<br />
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ISI may be hunting for spying talent in transport cos<br />
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(Pune mirror) Vishwambhar Tarachand Agarwal, working as a supervisor with a<br />
transport company, was arrested by the city police’s special investigation<br />
team (SIT) for allegedly spying on the Southern Command, the largest in the<br />
country, which has its headquarter in Pune. The alleged spy is 24 years<br />
old.<br />
The city police suspect that Agarwal may have links with Pakistan’s Inter<br />
Service Intelligence (ISI). They are also on the lookout for an army jawan,<br />
Brijesh Kumar Singh, who is believed to have passed on vital information<br />
about the Southern Command to him. This case is vital because the two<br />
<strong>ACIPSS</strong>-Newsletter <strong>05</strong>/<strong>2011</strong> - 24 -
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