The ugly Americans.

A CIA agent called Raymond Allen Davis, a former green beret working for the US State Department, was recently arrested by Pakistani police in Lahore after he shot dead two motor cyclists in broad daylight on 27 January. Some 47 eye-witnesses said Davis continued to shoot the two Pakistanis after they had turned to flee. Both were repeatedly hit in the back. Davis stated that he shot them not because they had menaced him with guns but because he believed they were armed.

To try to save his neck, Davis called the US consulate who dispatched a vehicle, an SUV, which came with such frantic speed that it didn't bother to drive on the right side of the road, resulting in the knocking down of a third motor cyclist. That prompted the vehicle to forget about Davis and return to the consulate.

Now the US is demanding that Davis be released because of "diplomatic immunity".

Contrast this case with that of a Pakistani woman called Aafia who was convicted in a New York court for attempting to kill Americans. She was sentenced to 86 years in prison and is being kept in total isolation. The trial was framed in such a way that there would be no mention of her being kidnapped from Karachi or that she and her three children had been tortured in secret prisons.

Apparently, according to the Americans, there should be one form of justice for its citizens and another for Muslim Pakistanis.