December 9th, 2011 | by Pratap Chatterjee | Published in All Stories, Covert Drone War, Human Rights, Top Stories | 1 Comment Cameron Munter and his wife arrive in Pakistan – Flickr /US Embassy Pakistan Cameron Munter, the US ambassador to Pakistan, faces a potential lawsuit in Pakistani courts for the killing of Tariq Aziz, aged 16, and Waheed Khan, aged 12, in late October in an alleged drone strike in North Waziristan launched by the Central Intelligence Agency. Aziz had just returned from a gathering of families of drone strike victims in Islamabad to discuss the impact of US drone strikes in their communities, where the Bureau was the last to photograph him before his death. At the meeting, which was organised by Reprieve, a British legal charity, the teenager had volunteered to take a camera back with him to document the impact of drone strikes, little knowing that he would be killed three days after he returned.
Legal challenges
Bureau analysis into drone strikes estimates that they have killed between 2,373 and 2,997 individuals in 309 strikes. At least 175 have been identified as children.
Several legal challenges have been mounted in Pakistan over these strikes, with the help of the Foundation for Fundamental Rights. In November 2010, Karim Khan, a journalist in Waziristan, threatened to sue Jonathan Banks, the CIA head of station in Islamabad, for the killing of his brother and his son, Asif Iqbal and Zaenullah Khan, in the town of Mir Ali in North Waziristan on December 31, 2009. Banks fled the country shortly after.
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Legal challenges
Bureau analysis into drone strikes estimates that they have killed between 2,373 and 2,997 individuals in 309 strikes. At least 175 have been identified as children.
Several legal challenges have been mounted in Pakistan over these strikes, with the help of the Foundation for Fundamental Rights. In November 2010, Karim Khan, a journalist in Waziristan, threatened to sue Jonathan Banks, the CIA head of station in Islamabad, for the killing of his brother and his son, Asif Iqbal and Zaenullah Khan, in the town of Mir Ali in North Waziristan on December 31, 2009. Banks fled the country shortly after.