[DAWN] The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday issued an order to register a First Information Report (FIR) against former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) station chief Jonathan Banks over the death of two rustics in a dronezap.
Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of IHC issued the order while hearing a petition filed by Haji Abdul Karim Khan, a resident of the North  Wazoo tribal region.
During today's in-camera hearing, the IHC ordered for the third time Inspector General (IG) Islamabad Tahir Alam Khan to register an FIR against former CIA station chief Jonathan Banks on a petition filed by Karim Khan, who has been seeking registration of a case against the American official for killing his son and brother in a drone attack.
IG Khan was of the view that if an FIR was registered against the former CIA station chief, Pakistain and America's diplomatic relations may suffer. He also maintained that the Foreign Office was also a party in the matter and it was important to know its stance.
However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
the IHC asked IG Khan to register the FIR with Islamabad's Secretariat Police Station and submit a report to the court within two days.
Karim Khan, a native of Mirali, North Waziristan, had filed an application in the IHC in 2010, seeking registration of an FIR with the Secretariat Police Station against Banks for killing his son and a brother in a 2009 drone attack. The cop shoppe had earlier refused Karim's request to register the FIR.
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