It also opens the gate for renewed project funding worth a couple of billion dollars a year to Pakistan by the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank.
When the teenager was arrested for an alleged public order offence a couple of days later, he was taken to Forest Gate police station where he was kept, with his hands cuffed in front of his body, in the cage area into which Mr Harrington walked.
But Gabi, our fixer supreme, made a couple of quick calls and we witnessed the Rwandan equivalent of Condeleeza Rice phoning a jobsworth on a gate and telling him to open it, or else.