Pakistan’s political leader, Imran Khan, whose party’s thousands of supporters have blocked a key supply route for NATO forces, has declared that he will mobilize public opinion against the U.S. drone attacks

Pakistan’s political leader, Imran Khan, whose party’s thousands of supporters have blocked a key supply route for NATO forces, has declared that he will mobilize public opinion against the U.S. drone attacks.
 
Imran Khan, chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf or Justice Movement, told anti-drones protesters in Peshawar that he will also organize more rallies against the drone attacks in other cities.

Earlier thousands of political activists blocked the main supply route for NATO troops in Afghanistan as protest against the U.S. drone strikes.

The protesters started a sit-in on the main supply route in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Khan also urged the government to quit the so-called U.S war on terror as this policy has brought destruction to Pakistan.

“Pakistan has lost fifty thousand people since the country has joined the US-led coalition. The country suffered billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands troops were sent to the tribal region on the excuse of fighting al-Qaeda,” he said.

He criticized the United States of violating Pakistan’s sovereignty and by carrying out drone attacks despite strong opposition by the country’s parliament. He said courts in Pakistan have delivered verdicts against the drone strikes but the government has failed to implement these orders.

Khan regretted that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif did not raise the issue of drone strikes when he spoke along with President Barrack Obama at a joint press conference during his recent visit to Washington.

He said the US drones have killed all hopes for peace dialogue with the Taliban militants, adding peace cannot be attained till the US drone strikes are stopped.