US halts Nato supply via Pakistan

Former cricketer Imran Khan’s party claimed a “tactical success” yesterday after the US military suspended shipments of equipment out of Afghanistan via a key Pakistani route, citing protests that posed a risk to truck drivers.
Activists in northwest Pakistan, some armed with clubs, have been forcibly searching trucks in an effort to halt Nato supplies in protest over US drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal belt. Pentagon said on Tuesday that the US had “voluntarily halted” shipments of cargo leaving Afghanistan through the Torkham border crossing in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.