Salon.com > Imran Khan http://www.salon.com Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Anti-drone protest blocked from destination http://www.salon.com/2012/10/08/anti_drone_protest_blocked_from_destination/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/08/anti_drone_protest_blocked_from_destination/#comments Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:45:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13034136 As Salon reported last week, a delegation of over 30 activists with anti-war group Code Pink traveled to Pakistan to "draw greater attention to the harm wrought by drone attacks, while reaching out and building solidarity with Pakistanis on the ground."

The group had planned Sunday to march, accompanied by Pakistani activists and cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, to an area beleaguered by U.S. drone strikes and Taliban militancy. However, the march was met with warnings from Pakistan's army, who set up roadblocks and prevented the marchers from reaching their destination in South Waziristan. The tribal region has been off limits to foreign visitors since Taliban insurgents turned the area into a sanctuary from NATO forces in Afghanistan.

For the Code Pink delegates the curtailed march has been only one aspect of their trip to Pakistan, which delegation organizer Medea Benjamin told Salon provides a "win-win" situation for awareness raising, regardless of the march's completion.

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