A Pakistani drone activist, who was reportedly abducted from his home last week, has claimed that his captors “interrogated and tortured” him.
Kareem Khan was kidnapped by nearly 20 men on February 5, days before he was to testify before European parliamentarians about US drone attacks. He claimed that the men picked him up from his home on the outskirts of Islamabad and bundled him into a van after blindfolding him.
Khan, who was later freed, said that some armed men in police clothes and plain civil uniform came to his house after midnight and took him with them, adding that he was then tortured, punched on the head, and beaten with a stick, the Dawn reported. A drone investigator himself, Khan has been fighting a legal case in which he has accused both the CIA”s former station chief and the Pakistani government for their roles in the US drone campaign in the country”s tribal areas. (ANI)