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WASHINGTON: Pakistan has asked the United States to conduct an inquiry into the Jan 27 shooting in Lahore when a CIA contractor, Raymond Davis, killed two Pakistani citizens.
Pakistan Embassy conveyed Islamabad’s request to the US Justice Department this week as US media reported Davis’s involvement in a fist-fight in Colorado over the weekend.
The Lahore shooting started a major diplomatic row between the United States and Pakistan as the Americans insisted that Davis enjoyed diplomatic immunity while the Pakistanis said he was a CIA contractor and not an embassy employee.
The US Justice Department is believed to have informed Pakistan that it was currently investigating the Jan 27 incident.
The department also promised to go through the evidence Pakistan had sent to Washington after it agreed to release Davis on the condition that the US would hold an independent inquiry to determine what caused the shooting.
Meanwhile, Davis appeared before a court in Castle Rock, Colorado, on Monday for fighting with a customer outside a food store on Saturday.
US prosecutors said they were weighing what charge to file against the CIA contractor accused of getting into a fight over a parking spot in Colorado, months after he was involved in the Lahore shootout.
He was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of third-degree assault and disorderly conduct. He hasn’t been formally charged but prosecutors say they’re considering the more serious charge of second-degree assault. Pakistan released Davis in March after families of the victims he had shot in Lahore agreed to accept $2.34 million as compensation.
