Diplomatic immunity? IMF Chief and Raymond Davis

The Chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been ordered to detain in Jail for a whole night under the charges of an attempted raid on Saturday noon, May 17, at a luxury hotel near Times Square in America.

The 62-year-old, grey-haired Struass-Kohlman, french native, was accused of attempting a rape on a 32-year-old maid, who came to clean his penthouse, assuming it empty. Kohlman came out of his bathroom naked and he sexually harassed her.

Despite the fact, Kohlman is a French diplomat but was present in New York City (NYC) for a private business. American Court has denied him bail, ordered to hold him under protective custody on Rikers Island, 400-acre penal that offers a strikingly different level of comfort than luxury Manhattan Hotel. As Kohlman was on his private business and was not performing diplomatic duties, the Judge refused to grant him diplomatic immunity and refused his bail in order to restrain him fleeing from America to France beyond the reach of American Law.

Kohlman will be held in a compound having a single bed where he would enjoy his meal alone.

Now compare the above report with the most controversial few days ago, Raymond Davis, who killed two young Pakistani boys in a day light in front of hundreds crowd on a Mozang Chowk in Lahore.

Davis was not performing his duties as a diplomat and was held by the Pakistani Police after chasing him on his way to American embassy. Pakistani foreign office declined his immunity and Foreign minister Shah Memood Qureshi was forced to resign his ministry.

As soon as Qureshi resigned, Government, who was claiming to bring Davis into Justice, presented him in Court and paid blood-money (dayet) to the families of victims from Governmental expenses, and within an hour let Davis go out of Pakistan in Afghanistan.

Since then, the Faheem (victim) family has been disappeared and the case has been discharged, not only from the court but also from the immature media.

America forced Pakistan to avoid any charge over Davis, while on the other hand, now has kept Kahn into custody, under the accusation of the less severe charges than Davis did.

The American Government now has to change the double standards, and it will only be possible if the Pakistani government stop painting 'we are beggars' on their faces.