The Supreme Court was asked on Wednesday to issue direction to the government to get an FIR registered against US President Barak Obama, responsible for murder of countless innocent Pakistanis through "drone attacks." National Council for Human Rights Chairman Advocate Tariq Asad filed a petition under Article 184 (3) of the Constitution, naming the Federal government as respondent.
"I have filed this petition as a token of protest against the drone attacks", said Asad while talking to this scribe. This will also sent a message encompassing the feelings and response of Pakistani nation across the world, he added. Asad expressed pessimism about the fate of the petition, saying the Supreme Court office was likely to return it after raising some objections; however, the petition would fulfil the purpose; registration of protest.
Asad prayed in the petition "the respondent be directed to submit a comprehensive report before this court as to who are responsible for causing the murders of citizens by drone attacks and direct it to get the FIR registered against Barack Obama, the President of US, and others who are responsible for the murder of innocent people by resorting to drone attacks."
It further said that the Federal government be directed to file complaint against the United States of America before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) or other appropriate and competent judicial organs of the United Nations to take action in accordance with the international law. Asad posed some constitutional questions through his petition, and termed the aggression committed by American drones as genocide and apartheid under the international law.