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LHC dismisses appeal against US drone strikes

LAHORE: A division bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday dismissed an inter-court appeal, challenging US drone attacks on Pakistani soil and declaring the US an enemy state.

The bench said it was a policy matter and the court could not interfere, adding it was up to the government to take a decision on the matter. The court said it could not declare the US an enemy state because that was the responsibility of parliament and the government.

It observed that the court, while deciding such matters, should prefer judicial constraints rather then judicial activism. It said petitions should not be filed on such complicated and delicate issues. A lawyers’ body – Wukala Mahaz Baraey Tahafaz Dastoor – had filed the appeal.

Earlier, Justice Asif Saeed Khosa had dismissed the petition on October 9, observing that the petitioner's claims were either outside the court’s jurisdiction or they pertained to matters of public policy, which the court had consistently refrained from entering into. staff report

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