UK FM faces suit over Pakistan attacks

London law firm Leigh Day Co is planning to begin proceedings against Hague at the High Court in London on behalf of Noor Khan, the son of Malik Daud Khan, who died in the CIA-operated assassination drone attack in northwest Pakistan last year.

The law firm said it had “credible, unchallenged” evidence that Hague supervised a policy of passing British intelligence to US forces planning air strikes in Pakistan.

Khan’s lawyers are also expected to argue that the staff at the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in southwest England may have broken the international law governing immunity for those involved in armed attacks.

“There is credible, unchallenged evidence that [Hague] is operating a policy of passing intelligence to officials or agents of the U.S. government and that he considers such a policy to be in ‘strict accordance’ with the law,” said Richard Stein, head of human rights law at Leigh Day.

However, asked whether Britain helps the United States in drone attacks, a Foreign Office spokesman claimed, “We don’t comment on intelligence matters”.

Dozens have lost their lives in CIA-operated assassination drone attacks in Pakistan since the beginning of 2012.

Washington claims that its air strikes target militants crossing the Afghanistan border, but local sources say civilians have been the main victims of the non-UN-sanctioned strikes.

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