Peshawar : Supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan from Khyber Pakhtunkhawa province resumed Monday after a two-day sit-in against United States drone strikes ended.
Authorities had stopped NATO supply trucks and oil tankers as thousands of people had blocked the mainhighway, bordering Afghanistan. Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf PTI Chief Imran Khan, who led a two-day sit-inin Peshawar, last night said PTI supporters would disrupt supplies to NATO forces if the US did not halt drone strikes in one month.
President of NATO contractors association Shakir Afridi said supplies for the foreign forces resumed early today and hundreds of stranded trucks and oil tankers headed to Afghanistan. Witnesses said theysaw supplies trucks entering Afghanistan via Torkham border point.
The US uses pilotless drone aircraft fire missiles on tribal areas to target alleged Taliban and al Qaeda militants, who CIA claims plan cross border attacks into Afghanistan. Tribesmen and Pakistani leaders argue that mostly civilians are killed in the American strikes and a last week attack killed 25 people including women and children in North Waziristan tribal area.
Anger has been at high against a drone strike in March which killed over 40 tribesmen, who had gathered in Datta Khel area of North Waziristan to resolve a local tribal dispute.PPI
