Pakistani demonstrators blocked a key NATO supply route to Afghanistan on Sunday in a major protest against U.S. drone strikes inside Pakistan. Thousands of NATO trucks were held up by the rally which was organized by the famous Pakistani cricket-player-turned-politician, Imran Khan.

Imran Khan, politician: “Number one is the message to the Pakistani people that unless we come out to protect the rights of our people, no one else will defend us, certainly not this puppet leadership; and secondly, a message to the Americans, that this is completely counterproductive. This is only creating hatred against the Americans. This is — this collateral damage, meaning killing of innocent women and children, all it is doing is helping the terrorists, it’s helping al-Qaeda, it is endangering the Americans. This is a tried and failed policy, and the whole object of this rally is to tell the Americans that, listen, time has come for a change of strategy.”