Pakistanis protest against US drone strikes
April 24th, 2011 - 6:17 pm ICT by IANSIslamabad, April 24 (IANS) The supporters of Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf party of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan continued their sit-in for the second day Sunday on a Peshawar road to protest against the US drone strikes in the country’s tribal areas and blocked NATO supplies to Afghanistan.
Khan and its supporters spent the night on the Peshawar Ring Road, Geo TV said Sunday.
“They (the US) are losing the war - they can never win it,” Khan told a gathering in the town of Akora Khattak on his way to the protest site in Peshawar’s Bagh-e-Naran neighbourhood. Peshawar is the capital of the country’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The sit-in, which started Saturday, was expected to end Sunday evening. People from the tribal areas and other regions joined the protest.
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