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Hakimullah Mehsud: Imran Khan seeks Nato blockade over killing
Imran Khan: "This was a deliberate targeting of the peace process"
Pakistani politician Imran Khan is threatening to blockade supply lines to Nato forces in Afghanistan if the US does not end drone strikes this month.
Mr Khan accused the US of sabotaging peace efforts with the Pakistani Taliban by killing its leader Hakimullah Mehsud last Friday.
"I mean are they a friend or an enemy?" the former cricketer asked the BBC.
He says he will organise protests on routes to and from Afghanistan if drone attacks do not end by 20 November.
Nato convoys through Pakistan carry more than half the food, fuel and other equipment needed by Western troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The BBC's Richard Galpin in Islamabad says the Americans are very unlikely to stop their drone strikes because they believe they are weakening the militant groups.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is opposed to the drones but does not want to damage relations with the US by blocking Nato's supply routes, our correspondent adds.
Hakimullah Mehsud was killed at a compound in the tribal region of North Waziristan near the Afghan border, just as the government in Islamabad hoped to get peace talks with the Taliban and other militants under way.
Mr Khan said there was no coincidence in the timing of Fridays' attack.
"Absolutely deliberate - this was a deliberate targeting of the peace process," he said in a BBC interview.
"The US clearly knew what was going on and everyone in Pakistan knew what was going on.
Imran Khan: "This was a deliberate targeting of the peace process"
Pakistani politician Imran Khan is threatening to blockade supply lines to Nato forces in Afghanistan if the US does not end drone strikes this month.
Mr Khan accused the US of sabotaging peace efforts with the Pakistani Taliban by killing its leader Hakimullah Mehsud last Friday.
"I mean are they a friend or an enemy?" the former cricketer asked the BBC.
He says he will organise protests on routes to and from Afghanistan if drone attacks do not end by 20 November.
Nato convoys through Pakistan carry more than half the food, fuel and other equipment needed by Western troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The BBC's Richard Galpin in Islamabad says the Americans are very unlikely to stop their drone strikes because they believe they are weakening the militant groups.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is opposed to the drones but does not want to damage relations with the US by blocking Nato's supply routes, our correspondent adds.
Hakimullah Mehsud was killed at a compound in the tribal region of North Waziristan near the Afghan border, just as the government in Islamabad hoped to get peace talks with the Taliban and other militants under way.
Mr Khan said there was no coincidence in the timing of Fridays' attack.
"Absolutely deliberate - this was a deliberate targeting of the peace process," he said in a BBC interview.
"The US clearly knew what was going on and everyone in Pakistan knew what was going on.
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