Davis recently released his tell-all tale, titled ‘The Contractor: How I landed in a Pakistani prison and ignited a diplomatic crisis.
In his book, Davis has expressed displeasure at then foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s decision to not grant diplomatic immunity to him.
Even though then US Secretary of State John Kerry considered Qureshi a friend, he [Qureshi] did not help me out, writes Davis.
“When Kerry flew to Pakistan on February 15, 2011, to attempt to broker a deal that might spring me from the Lahore prison where I was being detained on judicial remand, Qureshi didn’t act like much of a friend. Rather than giving in to the government’s wish that I be granted diplomatic immunity, he’d actually resigned his position three days after the incident at Mozang Chowk, and two weeks later he remained undeterred,” says Davis in his book.
In a meeting of top Pakistani officials, both President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani tried to convince Qureshi to change his hardline stance, but he said in a press conference the next day that he would not budge, Davis added.
He said the Pakistan government paid the Diyat money to the victims, which was later reimbursed by the US government.
According to Davis, John Kerry, Nawaz Sharif, Asif Zardari, former ISI chief Gen Ahmed Shujaa Pasha and Husain Haqqani helped in his release from the Kot Lakhpat Jail.
