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A mercenary contracted to American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Raymond Davis recently published his book 'The Contractor: How I Landed in a Pakistani Prison and Ignited a Diplomatic Crisis'. The book succeeded in igniting a furore in Pakistan against the Army and the ISI, it was meant to malign our credible institutions. However once the initial furore died down, Davis narrative was found to be motivated, many of the claims are patently false and/or meant deliberately to mislead. Despite having a price tag of US$14.99 why was this book freely available online in PDF format literally minutes after its launch? under normal circumstances world the publisher BenBella Inc, Texas, USA (a "boutique" publisher) and the author afford being out of pocket? That it was immediately massively circulated free of cost had an obvious aim, to malign Pakistan, the Pakistan Army and the ISI.
In his version of the actual event of January 27, 2011, Raymond Davis is clearly stretching the truth by justifying his act of killing as being 'self-defense'. Before she died on Feb 6 the widow of one of the victims who swallowed rat poison in Faisalabad told the doctors of being forced to accept Diyya (a form of monetary compensation or blood money). After the families of the men killed were paid $2.4 million in Diyya on March 16, the judge acquitted Davis and he left Pakistan.
Davis alleges that other than John Kerry, Nawaz Sharif, Asif Zardari, former ISI chief Gen (Retd) Ahmed Shuja Pasha and Hussain Haqqani, the Army and the ISI orchestrated his speedy release. The common perception given by the Davis narrative (being repeated...