...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
High Court on Tuesday declared illegal Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is
Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
(PTI) protests during which party activists blocked the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
supply route in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province and forcibly stopped and searched trucks, DawnNews reported.
A two-member bench of the PHC comprising Justice Yahya Afridi and Justice Malik Manzoor Hussain heard the petition filed by local trader Haji Lal Mohammad against the forced inspection of Afghanistan-bound cargo trucks by activists of PTI and its allied parties.
During the hearing, the court said the government should ensure the protection of human rights
...not to be confused with
individual rights,mind you...
and freedom.
Moreover, the court said the stopping and checking of vehicles during the protests was illegal.
PTI chief Imran Khan
... aka
Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...
has long opposed the US campaign of drone attacks targeting Taliban and Al Qaeda faceless myrmidons in Pakistain's tribal areas and the stated objective of the protests was to stop US drone strikes in Fata and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and force both the federal government and the Taliban to start talks to restore peace in the region.
He had intensified his rhetoric after a US drone strike killed Pak Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud on Nov 1.
Khan said the attack that killed Hakimullah was a deliberate attempt by Washington to sabotage efforts towards peace talks with the faceless myrmidons who have killed thousands in a six-year-long campaign of violence.