The UK court was hearing a legal challenged filed by a Pakistani man Noor Khan, whose father was killed by a drone strike. Khan's lawyers want to have the sharing of IS locational intelligence with the CIA declared unlawful, the Guardian report said.
The court said that media reports suggested that the signals intelligence agency GCHQ passes information in support of CIA drone operations in Pakistan, even though the UK government has declined to comment on it.
Khan’s lawyer Martin Chamberlain said a newspaper article in 2010 reported that GCHQ was using telephone intercepts to provide the US authorities with locational intelligence on leading militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
According to the report, the lawyer maintained that any GHCQ official who passed information to the CIA on drone strikes would be committing a serious criminal offence.
Foreign secretary’s lawyers said that they will neither confirm nor deny any intelligence-sharing activities as it would be “prejudicial to the national interest”.
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And what you will do with those (inside Pakistan) who believe drone attacks are still better than doing nothing (by our huqmraan) despite collateral damages?
@harsh: I think you have forgotten or intentionally trying to forget the most worst ever defeat in Afghanistan by the handful,brave and courageous Taliban (Mujahideen/Freedom Fighters) this is why you are once again giving such this type of statement.....
So the British court wants to protect these terrorists ... Use drones to track them, look for evidences (both visual and electronics others) and eliminate them with special focus on minimising coletral damages .... Otherwise how can we stop the attack by these terrorists on innocent people around the globe ...
DRONE attacks will ONLY create more enemies ... hundreds of thousand innocent ppl die and then thier family becomes terrorist... anything BUT drones please.
No Anti-Imran, Pro-American article this time? Great work Expiress.
The very fact that the British High Court is even hearing this is a step in the right direction. If one does not knock on the door how does one expect it to be opened.
Rubbish - and old news to boot. In the West you can bring a lawsuit over any matter that you choose -- that doesn't mean you have any chance of winning let alone the "war crimes" nonsense implied in this article.
Either surrender the foreign terrorist haqqani network Al qaeda etc or keep facing USA rage through drones in North waziristan