PESHAWAR, Nov 25: While the provincial police chief asked investigators to look into a PTI application which nominates the US and its Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the FIR on the Hangu drone strike, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government presented a protest memorandum to US diplomats here on Monday.

Meanwhile, workers of the PTI and its allies continued for the second day to block the vehicles carrying supplies for US and Nato forces.

According to a PTI press release, KP police chief, Nasir Durrani, ordered an investigation in response to the application by the party’s central legal secretary Barrister Suleman Afridi.

Senior Minister Sirajul Haq and other members of the provincial cabinet and legislators handed over the protest memorandum to the US Consulate’s Regional Security Officer Christopher Backend, who invited the minister for tea after receiving the communique. “You can come for a cup of tea anytime,” Mr Backend said to Mr Haq.

The minister said the provincial government would also present a memorandum at the US embassy in Islamabad.

After the diplomat had received the memorandum, Mr Haq shouted: “stop drone strikes”.

The memorandum called upon the United States to forthwith stop drone strikes on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

The two-page statement described drone strikes as an unlawful, inhuman and immoral act of aggression and a war crime and detrimental to the cause of peace in the region.

The memorandum said the unlawful US drone strikes were acts of aggression against a sovereign state under the UN Charter and international law and a war crime under a May 9 verdict of the Peshawar High Court.

During the protests on Monday, PTI workers blocked Nato supply routes at five places in four districts of the province. They denied passage to more than 10 vehicles but allowed those transporting Afghan Transit Trade goods, a press release said.

The workers checked the documents of such vehicles before allowing them to proceed to Afghanistan through Torkham.

They were joined by activists of Jamaat-i-Islami and Awami Jamhuri Ittehad.

During their visits to protest camps, PTI’s provincial legislators instructed the workers to avoid clashes with commercial transporters and stop only Nato vehicles.

PTI spokesman Ishtiaq Urmer told Dawn that the protest campaign would continue till complete stoppage of US drone strikes. “There will be no compromise on the sovereignty of the country. We will continue to oppose the violation of our geographical boundaries,” he said.

He rejected claims of certain politicians that such protests would not be able to stop drone strikes and said every nation had the right to record its resentment.