The Raymond Davis Incident
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In 2011, an American man shot dead two people in the streets of Lahore. The crisis that ensued saw accusations of espionage and US-Pakistani relations brought to the brink. For Witness History, Josephine Casserly tells the extraordinary story of the Raymond Davis incident.
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| 0:00.0 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:04.7 | My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:08.5 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices. |
| 0:18.0 | What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
| 0:24.6 | poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples. |
| 0:29.7 | If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. You're listening to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Josephine |
| 0:46.1 | Kassily. Today I'm hearing about a story which brought relations between the US and |
| 0:50.4 | Pakistan to the brink in 2011. It's a story that could be straight out of a spy movie, but kind of like a spy movie gone wrong. |
| 0:58.0 | This grainy footage is shot by a policeman on his phone at a police station in Lahore, Pakistan. |
| 1:07.0 | The policeman's phone is on the table pointing upwards so you can see a fan on a stained ceiling |
| 1:12.7 | and against it are the silhouettes of two men gesticulating. |
| 1:16.0 | The man on the right is a Pakistani policeman. |
| 1:18.6 | What the name? |
| 1:20.0 | Raymond Davis. |
| 1:21.2 | Raymond Davis. And the man on the left is Raymond Davis. |
| 1:23.2 | And the man on the left is Raymond Davis. |
| 1:25.9 | At this point Raymond Davis was unknown in Pakistan. |
| 1:28.6 | The policeman couldn't even pronounce his name. |
| 1:31.1 | But by the end of this story he'll be notorious. |
| 1:33.8 | From you're from America? |
| 1:35.8 | Yes. |
| 1:36.8 | Yes. |
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