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Lahore HC admits petition to make media reports part of Davis immunity case

Lahore , Wed, 02 Mar 2011 ANI

Lahore, Mar 2(ANI): The Lahore High Court (LHC) has admitted for formal hearing a petition to make media reports regarding double murder-accused CIA contractor Raymond Davis part of the case record.

 

Petitioner Advocate Muhammad Azhar Siddique stated that media reports regarding Davis' status should be made part of the record in the diplomatic immunity case so that the court's verdict takes various aspects of the case into consideration, the Dawn reports.

 

The applicant referred to various news reports in foreign media, with one report claiming that the United States had withdrawn from the optional protocol to Vienna Convention on Consular Rights proposed in 1963.

 

Siddique said former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice had informed UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan about the administrative decision to withdraw from the protocol in a letter dated March 7, 2005.

 

The applicant argued that since America intended to move the International Court of Justice, there was a possibility that either the US or Pakistan might take such an action that could ultimately oust the jurisdiction of this court on the matter.

 

Siddique filed another petition in the court to make the United States government a party in the Davis immunity case, to which Chief Justice Ijaz Chaudhry asked as to why it should be made a party to the case.

 

The court subsequently adjourned the hearing of the petitions until March 14. (ANI)

 


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