...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), which has been staging sit-ins to block the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
supply to Afghanistan in protest against covert US drone strikes in the country, on Thursday announced an end to its campaign.
The decision of the PTI, led by the cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan
... aka
Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five...
, came after a local court ruled on Tuesday that no private individual has a right to block or check vehicles on roads.
"Given PTI's commitment to rule of law and respect for the senior judiciary, the Party will end its blockade of NATO supplies," said a statement issued by the party.
"The Core Committee felt that the pressure of the blockade had already resulted in a shift in the Obama Administration's drone policy and as a result drones had been stopped for the present," it added.
PTI set up the unofficial checkpoints on November 24 last year in the northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...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.
, which is on the main route leading to Afghanistan and has been a key stop for vehicles carrying NATO supplies to the war-torn country.
Activists in northwest Pakistain, some armed with clubs, have been forcibly searching trucks in an effort to halt NATO efforts in protest over US drone strikes in Pakistain's tribal belt.
However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
the Peshawar High Court (PHC), hearing a petition regarding the checking of the vehicles carrying items being taken to Afghanistan under the transit trade agreement between the two countries, decided on Tuesday that no private people have any right to check the vehicles.
The US had already "voluntarily halted" shipments of cargo leaving Afghanistan through the Torkham border crossing in Pakistain's northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province in December 2013, the Pentagon has stated.