Tag: state department

  • Pakistan seeks update on Raymond Davis

    WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s embassy in Washington has asked the Justice Department for an update on its promised investigation into Raymond Davis’s last brush with the law, when he shot and killed two Pakistanis in January. Raymond Davis, the CIA contractor, whose arrest in Pakistan caused an international incident, had flown under the radar for the past…

  • US Senate ties all Pakistan aid to terror crackdown

    Piling up pressure on Pakistan, the US Senate Appropriations Committee passed a bill that makes all US financial assistance to the Government of Pakistan privy to conditions of cooperation against the Hqqani network and other terror groups associated with al Qaeda. According to a statement issued by the committee, the Senate passed the Department of…