Tribal elders from North Waziristan have decided to sue Britain government for assisting US drone attacks in the Federally Administered Tribal Area, for which a legal notice to the UK Foreign Minister has already issued to reply till January 12, otherwise face the litigation at a UK court.
Speaking at a press conference, a tribal elder, Malik Noor of North Waziristan Agency, on Wednesday said that his father Malik Daud, a former Agency Councillor had been killed in a drone attack among 50 others when he was sitting at a local Jirga to resolve a local dispute among the tribesmen on March 17 this year.
Flanked by his lawyer, Mirza Shehzad Akbar Advocate, he said that Foundation for Fundamental Rights had initiated legal battle for rights of the victims of drone attacks, saying that the UK government had already admitted that its secret agencies were assisting CIA in the attacks. Similarly, he said a case would also be filed in the relevant court in Pakistan. He said that the attacks were in violation of the international law.