MASTUNG: Unknown men set fire to 19 NATO supply tankers, Geo News
reported. According to sources, the NATO supply tankers which were
transporting oil were attacked by unknown gunmen on the Sibi-Quetta
highway.
Six fire brigades from Quetta faced difficulties in
extinguishing the fire and smoke from the oil tankers could be seen
several kilometers away. No loss of life was reported and levies and
administration officials reached the spot of the attack.
Earlier, armed men had torched five oil tankers carrying fuel for Nato forces in Dasht.
Around
40 Nato oil tankers were parked near a fuel station close to a police
check post on the National Highway, about 15 kilometres from Quetta,
when a group of armed men on motorbikes opened indiscriminate fire on
the tankers.
Most supplies and equipment required by foreign
forces in Afghanistan are shipped through Pakistan, although US troops
increasingly use alternative routes through Central Asia.
The
Karachi-Quetta-Chaman Highway is used to transport military hardware
and other logistical equipment, and the Mehmood Kot-Quetta-Chaman
Highway is used for fuel supply transfers.
Taliban and al
Qaeda-linked militants frequently launch attacks on NATO supply
vehicles in the northwest and southwest Pakistan area bordering
landlocked Afghanistan. Online
