CIA chief accused of murder over Hangu drone attack

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the political party of former cricketer Imran Khan Wednesday named the CIA’s director and a man it said was the agency’s chief in Pakistan as murder suspects over a drone strike.

Tehreek-e-Insaaf party has written to police over last week's attack on a seminary in Hangu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

The letter signed by PTI information secretary Shireen Mazari asked Hangu police to name CIA director John Brennan and a man they identified as the agency’s Islamabad station chief as suspects for murder and "waging war against Pakistan".

It is rare for CIA operatives to be identified in public.

PTI, which leads the coalition government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has long campaigned against the CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan. (AFP)