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Suspected pro-Taliban militants have set fire to a truck carrying supplies to US and NATO forces in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province.
The incident took place when unidentified armed men attacked a convoy of NATO oil tankers in the Dahakar area of the country's southwestern town of Sibbi on Tuesday.
"One oil tanker was completely destroyed in the attack," local police officials told Press TV.
The tankers were on their way to Chaman Pass on the Afghan border from the southern port of Karachi, the officials added.
The bulk of supplies and equipment required by NATO and US-led forces battling the Taliban in landlocked Afghanistan passes through the restive Khyber Agency in northwest Pakistan.
Pakistani authorities have deployed heavy contingents of police and military forces on all major arteries to curb militant attacks on supplies trucked to Afghanistan through the Khyber Agency.
More than 400 trucks and containers have been torched or plundered over the last four months in the restless tribal district along the Afghan border.
The rampant attacks, especially in the Khyber region, have forced NATO to look for alternative routes, including through Central Asia.
The incident took place when unidentified armed men attacked a convoy of NATO oil tankers in the Dahakar area of the country's southwestern town of Sibbi on Tuesday.
"One oil tanker was completely destroyed in the attack," local police officials told Press TV.
The tankers were on their way to Chaman Pass on the Afghan border from the southern port of Karachi, the officials added.
The bulk of supplies and equipment required by NATO and US-led forces battling the Taliban in landlocked Afghanistan passes through the restive Khyber Agency in northwest Pakistan.
Pakistani authorities have deployed heavy contingents of police and military forces on all major arteries to curb militant attacks on supplies trucked to Afghanistan through the Khyber Agency.
More than 400 trucks and containers have been torched or plundered over the last four months in the restless tribal district along the Afghan border.
The rampant attacks, especially in the Khyber region, have forced NATO to look for alternative routes, including through Central Asia.
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