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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
5 more NATO tankers blown up at TorkhamLANDIKOTAL: Five NATO oil-supply tankers were blown up at the Torkham border on Tuesday. On the second consecutive day, in a parking lot at the Torkham border, five oil tankers carrying fuel to NATO forces in Afghanistan were blown up by a bomb fixed to one of them. The rest of the tankers caught fire and were burnt totally. No casualties were reported until the filing of this report. More than 150 Afghanistan-bound oil tankers had been parked near the Torkham border for customs clearance on Tuesday when a powerful bomb went off in one of the tankers, turning four more into ashes, a Khasadar Force official said. staff report
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\08\25\story_25-8-2010_pg7_9
Four Nato tankers gutted near MachFriday, 16 Jul, 2010
QUETTA: Unknown assailants opened fire on six oil tankers heading toward Afghanistan near the Mach locality of tehsil Bolan in Quetta city late on Thursday, setting them ablaze.
Four oil tankers were left completely gutted as a result of the attack.
The Afghanistan-bound containers were passing through Quetta, carrying oil and other logistical materials for Nato forces.
Gunmen attacked the trucks when the drivers stopped along a hotel on National Highway.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/04-nato-tankers-gutted-qs-06 Gunmen torch Nato trucks in RawalpindiWednesday, 09 Jun, 2010
ISLAMABAD: Gunmen attacked trucks carrying supplies to Nato forces in Afghanistan, gutting several dozen vehicles in an inferno and killing seven people in a brazen assault near Islamabad, police said Wednesday.
The overnight attack was unprecedented for its proximity to the Pakistani capital, taking place at a depot in Rawalpindi on the road to the northwestern city of Peshawar and towards the main Nato supply route into Afghanistan.
Although militants have routinely attacked supplies for US and Nato-led foreign forces fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, the assault was one of the worst and underlines insecurity on the doorstep of the heavily-guarded capital.
Rows of tankers and trucks were reduced to a twisted mass of metal after the towering inferno at the Tarnol depot was brought under control, including a dozen loaded with military vehicles, television footage showed.
“Seven deaths have been confirmed. Four are injured. There is no information about any arrests,” said police official Gustasab Khan. The casualties were the drivers of the trucks, their helpers or local people, he said.
Police could not give a breakdown on the number of tankers and containers destroyed at the sprawling Tarnol depot, which is also used by local vehicles.
Although there was no immediate claim of responsibility, similar assaults in the past have been blamed on Taliban fighters.
“Unknown attackers opened fire on vehicles parked at Tarnol. Fire erupted in the tankers and trucks, and over a dozen were set ablaze. They were trucks carrying Nato supplies,” said police official Tahir Riaz.
“The vehicles gutted were carrying supplies for Nato forces in Afghanistan,” Naeemullah Khan, an officer at Tarnol police station, told AFP.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/06-nato-tankers-torched-in-rawalpindi-rs-07 Militants blow up Nato tankers in KhyberMonday, 19 Apr, 2010
PESHAWAR: A bomb attack in a restive tribal area on Monday destroyed two tankers carrying fuel for Nato forces in Afghanistan, local officials said.
The bomb planted under one tanker exploded near the village of Takhtabeg in the lawless Khyber tribal district, turning the vehicle into a huge ball of flames, administration official Rehan Gul Khattak said.
Six people were injured, reports AFP.
The second tanker and a goods truck passing by also caught fire and the blaze spread to a petrol pump and timber stores on the roadside, he added.
The tankers were carrying fuel for Nato forces in Afghanistan, Khyber administration chief Shafeerullah Wazir told AFP.
Khyber is on the main Nato land and supply route through Pakistan into Afghanistan, where more than 121,000 foreign forces are battling to reverse an escalating Taliban insurgency, now into its ninth year.
According to DawnNews, TTP has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Nato supply line.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/14-militants-blow-up-nato-oil-tanker-on-pak-afghan-highway-zj-06 Taliban torch Nato tankers in PakistanMonday, 05 Apr, 2010
PESHAWAR: Taliban armed with petrol bombs and rockets attacked a terminal in northwest Pakistan on Monday, torching eight tankers used to supply fuel to Nato forces in Afghanistan, officials said.
Dozens of fighters launched the attack at Zakha Khel in the tribal district of Khyber before dawn, local administration chief Shafeerullah Wazir told AFP.
The tankers had recently returned from supplying Nato troops in Afghanistan, where around 126,000 foreign troops are trying to help the Western-backed government put down a nearly nine-year Taliban insurgency.
“They hurled petrol bombs, then lobbed rockets and destroyed eight oil tankers,” Wazir said.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/metropolitan/21-taliban-torch-nato-tankers-in-pk-sk-01 50 injured in Torkham oil tanker blazeBy Ibrahim Shinwari
LANDI KOTAL, March 23: At least 50 people suffered burn injuries when a series of explosions triggered a huge blaze, destroying about 30 to 40 oil tankers in a parking area near the Torkham border town on Sunday.
Two explosions rocked the parking area of a dry stream around 7:50pm, triggering a series of small explosions and the huge fire, engulfing at least 30 to 40 tankers carrying oil for the US-led allied forces in Afghanistan. About 70 to 100 oil tankers were parked at the place at the time of the blasts, eye-witnesses said.
http://www.dawn.com/2008/03/24/top8.htm Militants torch Nato tanker in northwest PakistanMonday, 01 Feb, 2010
PESHAWAR: Militants armed with guns and rockets on Monday blew up a fuel tanker in northwest Pakistan carrying supplies for Nato troops across the border in Afghanistan, officials said.
Two people, a driver and his helper, were wounded after about 10 militants ambushed the tanker outside Peshawar, the head of the northwestern city's administration, Sahibzada Anees, told AFP.
“About 10 armed people fired at a tanker carrying petrol for Nato forces and later lobbed a rocket at the vehicle, which set alight some 78,000 litres of fuel,” Anees said.
Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack, he said, but Taliban and members of local militant group Lashkar-i-Islam (Army of Islam) have regularly attacked Nato supply vehicles on the main route through northwest Pakistan.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/04-nato-tanker-torched-qs-02 Nato oil tankers torched, gas pipeline blown upWednesday, 16 Dec, 2009
QUETTA: Two oil tankers carrying fuel for Nato forces in Afghanistan were torched and a gas pipeline in the Loti area of Dera Bugti district was blown up on Tuesday.
Police said the tankers were fired upon early in the morning in the Kharotabad area. The drivers stopped the vehicles after which the assailants set them afire. Both the tankers were completely gutted.
Meanwhile, militants blew up a 16-inch pipeline, suspending gas supply from the Loti gas field.
According to officials, a team of engineers was dispatched from Sukkur to repair the damaged pipeline.
In Quetta, a bus carrying police recruits escaped a bomb blast in the Sariab area. Police said the bomb was attached to a bicycle which exploded moments after the bus passed by.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/provinces/04-nato-tankers-quetta-qs-01 Controversy rages over attack on Nato convoyDawnNews Report
Monday, 23 Nov, 2009
KABUL: After cutting Nato supply lines along the Peshawar-Torkham highway, the Afghan Taliban may have begun targeting Nato supplies from Central Asian States to Afghanistan, according to a DawnNews report.
DawnNews obtained footage released by the Afghan Taliban which shows the destruction of Nato oil tankers in the Kunduz province of Afghanistan.
The Afghan government representative in Kunduz, Abdur Rehman Aiktash, confirmed the destruction of the three oil tankers but said that a gas cylinder explosion caused the destruction of the three tankers.
However, Afghan Taliban insist that it was them that targeted the tankers.— DawnNews
http://dawnnews.tv/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/11-controversy-rages-over-attack-on-nato-convoy--il--10 Chaman border crossing reopens after blastMonday, 31 Aug, 2009
ISLAMABAD: The Chaman border crossing with Afghanistan reopened after an administrative dispute culminated in an attack on a line of waiting Nato fuel tankers.
One driver was killed and 16 trucks destroyed when the fuel caught fire.
Taliban militants were suspected in the blast.
The blast ripped through a line of Nato fuel trucks backed up by a two-day closure resulting from a dispute over fruit inspections. At least one driver was killed and 16 trucks destroyed on the Pakistani side of the Chaman crossing, police official Gul Mohammad said.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/provinces/13+border+blast+sets+nato+fuel+trucks+afire-za-10 Two Nato oil tankers blown up in KhyberBy Ibrahim Shinwari
Saturday, 18 Jul, 2009
LANDI KOTAL, July 17: Two oil tankers carrying fuel for Nato forces in Afghanistan were blown up in Khyber agency on Friday.
About 30 shops were gutted when one of the oil tankers caught fire after hitting an explosive device placed by roadside in Wazir Dhand area of Jamrud on the main Peshawar-Torkham road.
Fruit seller Khwaja Said Mohammad was killed when flames engulfed his shop.
Fire-fighters rushed from Peshawar took several hours to bring the fire under control.
Traffic on the road remained suspended for several hours. The second tanker also hit an explosive device near Shiekhwal village in Landi Kotal tehsil.
The tanker was destroyed and two cleaners were injured. This was the second attack on Nato supply vehicles in three days.
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