NWA admin looking to book CIA chief

Published July 12, 2014
Haji Abdul Karim from Mirali lodged a complaint against former CIA station chief Jonathan Banks for killing his son and brother in a drone strike.—File Photo
Haji Abdul Karim from Mirali lodged a complaint against former CIA station chief Jonathan Banks for killing his son and brother in a drone strike.—File Photo

ISLAMABAD: Implementing the Islamabad High Court’s orders, the capital police have approached the political agent of North Waziristan Agency (NWA) to get a case registered against former station chief, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), police officials told Dawn on Friday.

Haji Abdul Karim from Mirali lodged a complaint with Secretariat police in 2009 seeking registration of a case against former station chief of the CIA Jonathan Banks for killing his son Zaheenullah and a brother Asif Iqbal in a drone strike the same year Mr Banks was CIA station chief in Islamabad at that time.

However, the police refused to entertain the complaint and in response he filed an application at district and sessions court Islamabad under section 22-A seeking direction for the police to register a case.


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After getting orders from the high court the capital police approached their prosecution department to seek legal opinion whether a case can be registered in Islamabad.

The prosecution department replied that under such circumstances the case should be registered in NWA, the officer added.

Published in Dawn, July 12th, 2014

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