As of February 16 a new foreign minister has not yet been appointed. The Guardian reported that a number of U.

The station then "removed the CIA reference from its website at the request of the U. On February 6, Shamshad's widow, Shumaila Kanwal, committed suicide with an overdose of pills, fearing that Davis would be released without trial, police and doctors said.

Charges were dropped and Davis was released after payment to the families of the two people he had shot. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that the U.

He was accompanied on the flight by Cameron Munter , the U. A senior U. Senator John Kerry helped broker the release of Davis.

There have been allegations of further repercussions stemming from the Davis incident. A petition has been filed in the Lahore High Court, alleging that family members of the two victims have gone missing.

On October 1, , Douglas County, Colorado , sheriff's deputies arrested Davis in Highlands Park, Colorado, at the Town Center in Highlands Ranch, for third-degree assault and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors, stemming from a dispute between Davis and year-old Jeff Maes about a parking space.

A witness told police that Davis then confronted Maes and said, "I was waiting for that spot and it wasn't right for you to take it.

The blow sent Maes to the ground. Neither Maes nor a third man present at the scene have been charged in the incident.

In , Raymond and his wife Rebecca divorced amicably, ending their marriage which began in In June , Davis launched his book titled The Contractor: How I Landed in a Pakistani Prison and Ignited a Diplomatic Crisis , detailing his narration of the incident and the events which unfolded during his imprisonment in Pakistan.

An editorial in Dawn noted: "the book cannot be taken as a complete account of what occurred because some details will undoubtedly have been removed by US government censors who authorised the book's publication.

But the book itself is a reminder of how opaque Pakistan-US security relations have been and perhaps continue to be.

However, what could not be ascertained is "whether Pakistani military and government officials were arm-twisted and what were the parameters of the debate surrounding Mr Davis's possible release inside Pakistani policymaking circles.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Diplomatic incident involving Pakistan and the United States. Wise, Virginia , U. Rebecca Davis. See also: CIA activities in Pakistan.

United States portal Punjab portal Biography portal Politics portal. The Washington Post. Archived from the original on April 12, Retrieved February 21, Al Jazeera.

March 16, Retrieved March 17, The practice of pardoning those accused of murder under such an arrangement is permitted under Pakistani law.

BenBella Books, Inc. The Guardian. Retrieved February 13, BBC News. January 28, Retrieved January 31, The New York Times. The Christian Science Monitor.

Retrieved March 11, Contractor in Pakistan". The BBC. Retrieved March 16, Bloomberg Businessweek. February 15, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi resigned rather than accept immunity for Davis, keeping his ear cocked to signals like everyone else in the Foreign Office.

Today there is much chest-beating in the social media in Pakistan about not hanging Raymond Davis.

Click here to join our channel indianexpress and stay updated with the latest headlines. By that time he had measured spectrosensitivities, the resolving powers, and several sensitometric characteristics of all available American negative materials.

In the mids, this group put forth a standard light source for sensitometry so that laboratories could compare sensitometric evaluations on a liquid filter that was adopted but internationally for sensitometry.

In , Davis-Gibson filters were adopted by the International Commission on Illumination for use in photometry and colorimetry.

The Davis-Gibson filters are used to this day in national and international standard light sources. Davis introduced the concept of "correlated color temperature" to characterize light sources of nearly Planckian spectral distribution.

This is an indispensable concept in modern photography, lighting practice, and colorimetry. He invented an ingenious technique for photographing the entire cylindrical surface of a bullet, as a continuous photograph on a single film, as well as a remarkably unusual application of the photographic process for the recovery of information from documents charred beyond legibility by fire.

He also assisted in the scientific analysis of evidence related to the kidnapping of Charles A. In the early s, NBS did a lot of research on microfilm for archival purposes.

Congress enacted a law permitting the destruction of federal paper records if they had been copied on film meeting the standards of NBS.

Davis played a role in that research and was responsible for implementing the law. According to Initial media reports Raymond Davis was styled as a diplomat, than he was called a consular employee and later some of the reports claimed he was a plain civilian visiting on a business visa.

The US embassy confirms his employment as a technical adviser. Anther statement came from ABC news that Davis was associated with a security firm in Florida, which had an ambiguous context leading to more reports of a possible CIA connection.

Later on the US state officials claimed that he was not an employee at Lahore consulate but an employee of US embassy at Islamabad.

The important question was that whether he had the diplomatic immunity and privileges or not? He shall not be liable to any form of arrest or detention.

The shift in statement regarding the status of Raymond was due the fact that employee of consulate cannot enjoy certain immunities and privileges as employee of embassy.