A Pakistani anti-drone activist is missing after being abducted from his home in Rawalpindi.
Kareem Khan was abducted on February 5th, his lawyer Shazad Akbar said.
According to CNN, Akbar said that 20 men, some of them dressed in police uniforms, kidnapped Khan.
He added that Khan was his first client in 2010 against U.S. drone strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
Khan, who is also a journalist, hails from the tribal area of North Waziristan, and was due to travel to Europe this week to speak to German, Dutch and British parliamentarians about his personal experience with drone strikes.
Khan spoke to CNN in December 2010 about the airstrike a year earlier that had targeted his home in Machikhel, a village in North Waziristan, the report said.
Khan said the drone strikes had killed his 35-year-old brother, a teacher with a master's degree in English literature; his 18 year-old son, and several others.
He filed then also filed a 500 million dollars lawsuit against the U.S. government.
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