CIA contractor

Edward Snowden, former CIA contractor who honed his hacking skills in India before leaking US` secret surveillance programmes, has said he was "trained as a spy" and dismissed America`s assertion that he was a low-level hacker.

The United States has warned countries against giving shelter to fugitive Edward Snowden.

The widow was murdered following a family dispute over the blood money and her desire to remarry, police officials said.

Raymond Davis is accused of getting
into a fight over a parking space in the state of Colorado.

The largest protest took place in Lahore, where about 3,000 people gathered for the rally.

The relatives of the victims agreed to accept blood money and pardoned Raymond Davis, who was accused of murdering two Pakistanis.

A Pakistani court on Wednesday formally charged a CIA contractor on two counts of murder at a hearing held at a prison in Lahore, a police official said, in a move that may further strain relations with the United States.

An American jailed in Pakistan for the fatal shooting of two armed men was secretly working for the CIA, a disclosure likely to further frustrate US govt efforts to free the man and ease relations with Pak.