... who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five...
said Friday his party workers would block the port in Bloody Karachi to protest against US drone strikes in the country's tribal badlands.
Bloody Karachi is Pakistain'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
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants...
forces fighting against Talibs 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 Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice).
"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... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Müslim League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
but refrained from passing similar comments about army chief Ashfaq Kayani
... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI...
.
Khan's party staged a two-day sit-in outside the northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar last month, which was called to urge the US to end a covert missile campaign against faceless myrmidons in Pakistain's tribal belt.
Khan said the government had given full liberty to its "American masters to kill Paks at will."
"We'll be protesting against the drone strikes till our people are truly liberated from the clutches of monsters," he said.
NATO supply trucks and oil tankers are the targets of frequent attacks blamed on bully boyz attempting to disrupt supplies for the more than 130,000 international troops fighting in Afghanistan.
Most supplies and equipment required by coalition troops in Afghanistan are shipped through Pakistain, although US troops increasingly use alternative routes through central Asia.