Following the attack by the NATO on Salala Check post the supply of various items to the NATO forces from Quetta and Chaman route remained closed for the third day on Monday.
The containers and oil tankers supplying items and fuel to the NATO
forces are parked in Quetta and other parts of the province.
There are long queues of containers on Pak-Afghan border in Chaman
city. To cope with the situation and to meet any unpleasant incident the
law enforcement agencies have deployed security personnel in the area.
Various transport companies have directed the drivers of NATO supply
vehicles to return to Karachi. On the other hand the NATO supply
vehicles plying between Khyber Agency and Afghanistan had returned to
Punjab. On the directives of the provincial government four terminals
of the vehicles supplying to NATO forces have been closed at Nosherah.
Three hundred vehicles have been returned to Punjab province.
All Pakistan Oil Tankers Association has decided to completely stop
the oil supply to the NATO forces in Afghanistan. General Secretary of
the Association Nawab Sher Afridi chaired a meeting which decided that
till a complete explanation from the United Nations and full
satisfaction of the Security organizations of Pakistan about the NATO
attack on Salala check post, each sort of supply will remain suspended. SANA
