“The other thing that is incontrovertible is did have diplomatic status as an attaché. On Monday a spokesperson for the State Department declined to tell RealClearLife whether “blood money” was paid to anyone, but Nawaz said he thought it unnecessary and unlikely. The Hall ordeal ended last week when Pakistani authorities finally allowed him to board a plane for the U.S. government expected to “receive a bill for money paid to the families.” would not pay compensation directly, but a White House official told ABC News the U.S. At the time, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. To get Davis home, the families of the men he killed received more than $2 million. The solution, in part, was “blood money.” Under Pakistani law, the alleged perpetrator of a crime can provide financial compensation to the victim or the victim’s family and avoid criminal prosecution. and Pakistan struggled to find a way to dissolve the crisis. all the way up to then-President Barack Obama - claimed Davis was a diplomat who enjoyed immunity and should be immediately released.īut there was a complicated dispute about Davis’ status as a “diplomat,” and he was held for 49 days as the U.S. After a mob surrounded Davis, he was taken into custody. In that case, Davis, a CIA contractor, shot and killed two men who he believed were about to do him harm on the streets of Lahore, Pakistan.
Though kept much further under the radar, the Hall ordeal was becoming a troubling echo of the Raymond Davis affair that nearly bottomed-out U.S.-Pakistani relations in 2011. government insisted that Hall’s diplomatic immunity be recognized under international law. tried to get Hall out of the country in mid-May, the Pakistani government blocked him from leaving and reportedly added him to a kind of no-fly list. All the while, the U.S.
The controversy has been all over the Pakistani press, however, and there were calls for Hall to be tried in a Pakistani court. When the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad released a short statement the day after the incident expressing “its deep sympathy to the family of the deceased and those injured in a tragic traffic accident involving a U.S. State Department spokespeople have generally refused to discuss it in any detail. The accident happened early last month but received relatively scant attention in the news-saturated American media, and U.S.
Robert Grenier, a former CIA station chief for Pakistan and Afghanistan, said that with relations so tense, such an incident could “fan the flames.”
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