Relatives of US drone attack victims have formally lodged a first information report at a police station in Islamabad seeking the arrest of former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) legal chief John Rizzo for approving attacks that killed hundreds of people.
According to the Daily Times, the document called on Interpol and the United States to enforce an arrest warrant against Rizzo, whom it says was until recently general counsel to the CIA and claims "the accused can be tried in Islamabad".
It accused Rizzo of conspiracy to wage a war of aggression, to commit murder and various other crimes, including crimes against humanity.
"Rizzo worked with the agency as one of their legal counsels from the 1970s and was in that position at the time of the initial attacks on Pakistan sovereign territory (in 2004)," the document said.
"At CIA, one of his roles was to approve a list of persons to be killed every month in Pakistan by CIA using unmanned aerial vehicles and he had already confessed of his crime publicly," it added.
Now retired, Rizzo had admitted in an interview with the magazine Newsweek that since 2004 he had approved one drone attack order a month on targets in Pakistan.
Opponents of drones say that the unmanned aircraft are responsible for the deaths of up to 2,500 Pakistanis in 260 attacks since 2004.
US officials, on the other hand, claim that the vast majority of those killed were 'militants'. ANI
