Quote:“We are holding the biggest ever anti-drone protest in Peshawar, where we could decide to block NATO supplies permanently,” Khan, who leads the Pakistan Tehreek Insaf (PTI), told IPS ahead of massive protests planned by the party for Nov. 23.

“We don’t want to start a fight with the U.S. but we have every right to protest these illegal assaults which kill innocent people,” Khan said, calling the attacks a breach of international law and a violation of human rights.

Quote:Few trucks head to Afghanistan over the weekend, so the real test will be on Monday, but the PTI says they will reassemble, and while provincial police note the ad-hoc blockades are technically illegal, since they can only act against them on the orders of the PTI-run provincial government, there’s nothing they can do.

Information Minister Pervez Rashid slammed the protests, accusing the PTI of trying to ruin Pakistan’s relationship with the US and other NATO members. PTI leader Imran Khan has accused the national government, which is nominally opposed to the drone strikes, of looking the other way, and insists it is only acting against NATO supplies because Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has proven unable, or unwilling, to do anything about the drones.