Summary The request was submitted to IGP Nasir Khan Durrani by PTI's Secretary of Central Legal Affairs.
PESHAWAR (Web Desk) - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has requested the Inspector General Police (IGP) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to nominate United States and its Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the First Information Report (FIR) filed on November 22 against last week s drone strike in Hangu district.
The request was submitted to IGP Nasir Khan Durrani by PTI s Secretary of Central Legal Affairs Barrister Suleman Afridi.
References to the statement of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, a news story regarding the US drone strike in the Washington Post and decisions of the Peshawar High Court were also made in the request.
On this, IGP Nasir Durrani ordered the concerned department to conduct an inquiry and submit a detailed report.
An FIR against the drone strike, which targeted an Islamic seminary in Tall area, was filed against unidentified persons in Hangu on November 22. At least, six persons were killed in the incident.
Covert CIA drone strikes have long been a sensitive subject, with officials regularly criticizing them in public as a violation of the country s sovereignty, however, the US regards the strikes as a highly effective tool in the fight against militancy.
PTI chief Imran Khan earlier set a November 20 deadline for the halting of drone strikes and threatened to block NATO convoys in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where PTI leads the coalition government. But on Saturday he said he will take the issue to the country s top court and, if necessary, to the international court of justice.
