Summary Forensic report shows that air to surface technology was used in the drone strike by the US.
PESHAWAR (Dunya News) - Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Police have received forensic report of Hangu drone strike.
According to report, air to surface technology was used in the drone strike.
The KPK police has finalised questionnaire for investigating the US and CIA for Hangu drone attack. The questionnaire would be forwarded to the U.S via Pakistan’s Foreign Office.
According to KPK police, counsel of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf submitted an application to register a case of Hangu drone attack against the US and CIA on the ground of three points.
The first point mentioned in the application was that an American news paper also reported the US drone attack in Hangu.
The second point raised in the application mentioned that the Foreign Office had registered its protest to the US over the drone strike that took innocent lives.
The third stance maintained by the counsel of PTI was that the Peshawar High Court had declared that any drone attack in the territory of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa would be considered a war crime.
The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa police could adopt different ways to forward the questionnaire to the U.S. and CIA’s station chief in Islamabad.
The questionnaire could be forwarded to the Foreign Office through inter-provincial department whereas the KPK police could also contact the foreign office via Ministry of Interior.
If the CIA Station Chief in Islamabad enjoys immunity, he cannot be investigation or arrested. The maximum action against him could be expulsion from the country or the federal government can request the US Ambassador to remove that person from the assignment.
It is worth mentioning here that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf last week named the CIA s director and a man it said was the agency s chief in Pakistan as murder suspects over a drone strike.
Pakistan’s former cricketer Imran Khan’s PTI had written to police over a drone attack on a seminary in Hangu on November 21 that killed five persons including a Haqqanis network leader.
The letter signed by PTI information secretary Shireen Mazari asked Hangu police to name CIA director John Brennan and a man they identified as the agency s Islamabad station chief as suspects for murder and "waging war against Pakistan".
It is rare for CIA operatives to be identified in public. The then-Islamabad station chief was forced to leave Pakistan in late 2010 when a Pakistani official admitted his name had been leaked.
PTI, which leads the coalition government in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, has long campaigned against the CIA s drone campaign in Pakistan.
Khan has stepped up his rhetoric since a drone attack killed the leader of the Pakistani Taliban on November 1. He accused Washington of deliberately sabotaging fledgling efforts towards peace talks with the militants.
He has urged the government to halt trucks travelling through Pakistan with supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan.
But the government has shown no appetite for the move, leaving PTI activists to take matters into their own hands.
In recent days PTI supporters armed with clubs have set up checkpoints on roads in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and forcibly searched trucks for NATO supplies.
