Pakistan pressed over missing drone activist
A Pakistani court has ordered the country’s intelligence agencies to produce a prominent anti-drone campaigner, who was abducted last week, by February 20, or to categorically state that they are not holding him, the activist’s lawyers say.
Speaking to Al Jazeera on Wednesday, Shehzad Akbar, the head of Karim Khan’s legal team, called Khan’s abduction from his Rawalpindi home late on February 5 "a signature government abduction", alleging that Pakistan’s powerful intelligence agencies were responsible for the disappearance.
Khan had been due to fly to Europe on February 15, on a trip that would see him testify before members of the European Parliament in Brussels, UK legislators in London and the International Criminal Court in The Hague, on the US' use of drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
Khan’s 17-year-old son, Zahinullah Khan, and brother, Asif Iqbal, were killed in a drone strike in the Machi Khel area in North Waziristan on December 31, 2009.
Since then, he had waged a legal battle against the United States, going as far as to name the then-CIA station chief in Pakistan in a law suit filed in the Islamabad High Court in 2010. That case is ongoing, with an associated civil suit being referred to a lower court during a hearing on Tuesday.
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Karim Khan holds up photos of his brother and son, killed in a drone attack in December of 2009
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