Former cricket star Imran Khan’s party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, took its anti-drone strike protests a step further Wednesday.
The PTI revealed the name of a man it claims is the senior most CIA officer in Pakistan, and called for him and CIA Director John Brennan to be tried for a recent strike in the tribal northwest.
The officer’s name was withheld by US media, and CIA spokesman Dean Boyd.
The big reveal came in a letter the , demanding that the CIA’s Pakistan station chief and Brennan be held accountable for a Nov. 21 strike that killed five militants.
At least one of the dead was a senior commander of the Haqqani Network, a group the United States designated as a terrorist organization in 2012.
The letter, : “I would like to nominate the US clandestine agency CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) Station Chief in Islamabad … and CIA Director John O. Brennan for committing the gross offences of committing murder and waging war against Pakistan.”
This isn’t the first instance of a CIA station chief’s cover being blown. The CIA’s top spy in Pakistan was pulled out of the country in 2010 after he was named in a lawsuit.
Imran Khan, who ran in Pakistan’s most recent elections, has been a vocal critic of drone strikes on Pakistan’s soil. His party pledged last week to block NATO supply routes between Pakistan and Afghanistan in protest of drones strikes.
