Militants destroy NATO trucks in Pakistan

August 31st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Supplies of fuel and other logistics to Afghanistan-based NATO forces from Pakistan resumed Monday, hours after 25 tankers were gutted in a blaze in Pakistan's Chaman town in southwestern Balochistan province. Two-way traffic had been suspended for the past two days because of a row over searching of trucks coming from Afghanistan and Pakistan.

August 31st, 2009 Pakistan army kills 45 Taliban; border reopensISLAMABAD — Pakistani soldiers killed at least 45 Taliban militants in scattered gunbattles across the northwestern Swat Valley after a suicide bombing on a police station killed 17 cadets, the army said Monday. Hundreds of miles (kilometers) away, a southwestern border crossing with Afghanistan reopened after an administrative dispute culminated in an attack on a line of waiting NATO fuel tankers.

July 17th, 2009 Official: blasts hit 2 NATO tankers in NW PakistanISLAMABAD — A government official says militants launched two attacks on oil tankers in northwest Pakistan carrying fuel supplies to NATO forces in neighboring Afghanistan. One bystander has been killed.

May 13th, 2009 PESHAWAR - Armed militants on Wednesday launched a rocket attack on a NATO supply terminal located on Peshawar's Ring Road, Geo news reports. According to the sources, a fire broke out following the attack by unidentified militants.

April 25th, 2009 LAHORE - US Special Representative on Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke has said there is no evidence that India is supporting violence in Pakistan. "If the Indians were supporting those miscreants in Pakistan that would be extraordinarily bad, really dangerous, but they are not doing so.

April 23rd, 2009 Militants burn NATO fuel tankers in PakistanISLAMABAD — Dozens of militants armed with guns and gasoline bombs attacked a truck terminal in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday and burned five tanker trucks carrying fuel to NATO troops in Afghanistan, police said. NATO and U.S.

April 21st, 2009 LAHORE - Responding to top US commander in Afghanistan, General David McKiernan's comments that Pakistan must do more to dismantle the terror safe havens operating on its soil, Pakistan has also asked NATO to 'do more' in Afghanistan. The Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told a private television channel that the Pakistan Army is 'doing enough' in the war on terror, and asked NATO forces to intensify its operations in Afghanistan.

April 12th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Scores of Islamist militants destroyed at least 10 lorries Sunday in north-western Pakistan in an attack on a truck terminal used for transporting supplies to US and NATO troops in Afghanistan, police said. Three private guards were injured when insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades at the depot on the edge of Peshawar, the capital of troubled North-West Frontier Province.

March 28th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Dozens of Taliban militants attacked a NATO transit terminal in northwest Pakistan Saturday with rockets, damaging shipping containers carrying supplies for Western troops in Afghanistan, the police said. The attack took place at the Farhad terminal on the outskirts of Peshawar, the capital of North-West Frontier Province.

February 25th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Taliban leader Mullah Omar has asked Pakistani militants to halt attacks on Pakistani forces, media reports said Tuesday. In a letter to the leaders of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other militants, Mullah Mohammad Omar, the head of the ousted Taliban regime, said that fighting fellow Muslims was not jihad, The News reported.

February 24th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani security officials Monday claimed to have killed 10 militants in the country's restive tribal district along the Afghan border. Helicopter gunships and artillery shells targeted a militants' location in the Khyber area, which serves as a vital route for supplies for NATO troops deployed in landlocked Afghanistan, said an official from Frontier Corps, the paramilitary troops fighting the Taliban.

February 22nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A NATO supply tanker was attacked by militants in northwest Pakistan, a media report said Saturday. This is the latest attack on a NATO supply route in Pakistan.

January 13th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Wednesday temporarily closed a vital supply route for Western troops in landlocked Afghanistan, officials said. Traffic on the passage running through Pakistan's restive Khyber tribal district was halted by security forces in the early morning as they continued a sweep to clear the area of Taliban militants launching regular attacks on trucks carrying NATO supplies.

December 29th, 2008 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's security forces opened a new front against militants in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan early Tuesday, the News Network International (NNI) news agency reported. The security forces launched an offensive in Jamrud, a main town in the Khyber tribal region, said the report.

December 29th, 2008 ISLAMABAD - Overland haulage of supplies for US and Nato troops in Afghanistan through Pakistan's famous Khyber Pass was suspended Tuesday when security forces sealed off the region before launching an operation against militants, officials said. Government troops backed by tanks, artillery pieces and helicopter gunships entered the Jamrud area in the Khyber tribal district early Tuesday to target armed insurgents involved in a spate of kidnappings in the north-west and attacks on trucks carrying food and military supplies into land-locked Afghanistan.