ISLAMABAD: Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday sought comments from the station house officer (SHO) of the Secretariat police in a contempt plea filed against the police authorities for not registering an FIR against a former CIA station chief.

On June 5, the IHC had ordered the SHO to register an FIR against former CIA station chief Jonathan Banks and his legal adviser John A. Rizzo.

The order was issued on a petition filed by anti-drone activist Karim Khan.

A resident of North Waziristan, Khan lost his son Zahinullah and brother Asif Iqbal in a US drone strike on December 31, 2009.

In February this year, Khan was ‘picked up’ from his home days before he was due to testify before the European Parliament.

But he was recovered after the Lahore High Court took up his disappearance.

Through the contempt petition, Khan contended before the court that despite the lapse of four months the police were yet to comply with the court orders.

He requested the court to initiate contempt proceedings against the police officials.

After preliminary hearing of the plea, Justice Siddiqui directed the station house officer (SHO) to submit his reply and adjourned further hearing till a date to be fixed by the registrar office.

Published in Dawn, October 21st , 2014