ISLAMABAD: Upholding a verdict y the Peshawar High Court (PHC), the Supreme Court (SC) dismissed a petition filed to halt US drone strikes in Pakistani territory.
Led by Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, a three-member bench dismissed a petition that argued that such matters are overseen by the government.
“Innocent people are killed in the drone strikes,” said the petitioner’s lawyer. The chief justice said that the drone strikes have now stopped and that the last drone strike took place on December 2017.
Moreover, the court said that the Ministry of Defence and the government, not the court itself can address such issues. The PHC had earlier forwarded the issue to the defense ministry.
A petition had been filed in the SC by Raja Saad Sultan challenging the decision of the PHC for stopping of US-led drone strikes.
