Failed "Swap" With Raymond Allen Davis
The parents of the two young men who were shot dead by Raymond Davis, CIA contractor in Pakistan and U.S. consulate employee, on January 27, 2011, had said they are ready to withdraw the murder case filed against him if the U.S. authorities allow Siddiqui to return to Pakistan as a free citizen. However, both the families backed out afterwards and agreed to drop the case (according to Al Jazeera, under some pressure from the Pakistani government) in return for accepting payment of up to 3 million USD as diyya or blood money as specified by Islamic Sharia tradition; Davis was later released by Pakistan and went back to the U.S.
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