{"id":313705,"date":"2011-03-16T12:26:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T12:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/16\/pakistan-acquits-cia-contractor\/"},"modified":"2011-03-16T12:26:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T12:26:27","slug":"pakistan-acquits-cia-contractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/16\/pakistan-acquits-cia-contractor\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan acquits CIA contractor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"47.1962616822\">\n        \t\t  <span><br \/>\n    <span>16 March 2011<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Last updated at <\/span><span>08:26 ET<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A Pakistani court has acquitted a US CIA contractor of two counts of murder at a hearing held at a prison in Lahore, a government official has said. <\/p>\n<p>Raymond Davis, 36, was alleged to have shot dead two men in the eastern city of Lahore in January following what he said was an attempted armed robbery. <\/p>\n<p>The acquittal came when relatives of the dead men pardoned him in court.<\/p>\n<p>They confirmed to the judge overseeing the case that they had received compensation &#8211; known as &#8220;blood money&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Under Pakistani law, relatives of a murder victim can pardon the killer.<\/p>\n<p>Reports say about 18 family members of the two dead men were in court on Wednesday and confirmed that they wanted Mr Davis to be freed and pardoned because they had received &#8220;blood money&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Originally posted here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-south-asia-12757244\" title=\"Pakistan acquits CIA contractor\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pakistan acquits CIA contractor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 16 March 2011 Last updated at 08:26 ET A Pakistani court has acquitted a US CIA contractor of two counts of murder at a hearing held at a prison in Lahore, a government official has said. Raymond Davis, 36, was alleged to have shot dead two men in the eastern city of Lahore in January following what he said was an attempted armed robbery. The acquittal came when relatives of the dead men pardoned him in court. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan acquits CIA contractor - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/16\/pakistan-acquits-cia-contractor\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Pakistan acquits CIA contractor - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"16 March 2011 Last updated at 08:26 ET A Pakistani court has acquitted a US CIA contractor of two counts of murder at a hearing held at a prison in Lahore, a government official has said. 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