Former cricketer Imran Khan said Friday his party workers would block the port in Karachi to protest against US drone strikes in the tribal badlands. Karachi is Pakistan's economic hub, home to its stock exchange and a lifeline for a depressed economy wilting under inflation and stagnating foreign investment. The southern port city is important to logistical support for the Nato forces fighting against Taliban militants in Afghanistan.
"We'll sit outside the port's gate from Saturday afternoon to Sunday evening continuously to block the trucks carrying Nato supplies," said cricket-hero-turned politician Khan, who leads Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. "It will be our symbolic protest against the US atrocities towards our innocent citizens." He had equally harsh words for President Asif Zardari's government and the main opposition leader Nawaz Sharif but refrained from passing similar comments about army chief Ashfaq Kayani. "We'll be protesting against the drone strikes till our people are truly liberated from the clutches of monsters," he said.
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