<p>Pakistani authorities had stopped NATO supply trucks and oil tankers as thousands of people had blocked the main highway, bordering Afghanistan.<br /><br />Cricketer-turned politician and Tehrik-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan, who led a two-day sit-in in the city of Peshawar, last night announced that he would disrupt supplies to NATO forces if the US did not halt drone strikes in a month time.<br /><br />President of the NATO contractors association Shakir Afridi said that supplies for the foreign forces resumed early today and hundreds of stranded trucks and oil tankers headed to Afghanistan.<br /><br />Witnesses said they saw supplies trucks entering Afghanistan via Torkham border point.<br />The US uses pilotless drone aircraft to rain missiles on the Pakistani tribal regions to target Taliban and al-Qaeda militants, who CIA says plan cross border attacks into Afghanistan.<br /><br />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 region.<br /><br />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 dispute.<br />Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani had angrily reacted to that strike and the tribesmen vowed revenge.<br /><br />Despite the public resentment and Pakistan's official protest, the US administration has rejected possibility to halt the strikes.<br /><br />There were more than 110 missile strikes in the tribal belt last year. In 2011, North Waziristan tribal agency has so fat witnessed 20 drone strikes.<br /><br />A CIA spokesman said after a meeting of the American and Pakistan intelligence chiefs this month that the US will take every action to protect its citizens.<br /><br />Suspected militants also target the NATO trucks and have torched hundreds over the past several years.<br /><br />The US has already struck an agreement with Russia for alternate supply route and is planning to sign similar deals with Central Asian states.</p>
<p>Pakistani authorities had stopped NATO supply trucks and oil tankers as thousands of people had blocked the main highway, bordering Afghanistan.<br /><br />Cricketer-turned politician and Tehrik-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan, who led a two-day sit-in in the city of Peshawar, last night announced that he would disrupt supplies to NATO forces if the US did not halt drone strikes in a month time.<br /><br />President of the NATO contractors association Shakir Afridi said that supplies for the foreign forces resumed early today and hundreds of stranded trucks and oil tankers headed to Afghanistan.<br /><br />Witnesses said they saw supplies trucks entering Afghanistan via Torkham border point.<br />The US uses pilotless drone aircraft to rain missiles on the Pakistani tribal regions to target Taliban and al-Qaeda militants, who CIA says plan cross border attacks into Afghanistan.<br /><br />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 region.<br /><br />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 dispute.<br />Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani had angrily reacted to that strike and the tribesmen vowed revenge.<br /><br />Despite the public resentment and Pakistan's official protest, the US administration has rejected possibility to halt the strikes.<br /><br />There were more than 110 missile strikes in the tribal belt last year. In 2011, North Waziristan tribal agency has so fat witnessed 20 drone strikes.<br /><br />A CIA spokesman said after a meeting of the American and Pakistan intelligence chiefs this month that the US will take every action to protect its citizens.<br /><br />Suspected militants also target the NATO trucks and have torched hundreds over the past several years.<br /><br />The US has already struck an agreement with Russia for alternate supply route and is planning to sign similar deals with Central Asian states.</p>