Baluchistan: 19 NATO oil tankers torched in Dasht

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Baluchistan: 19 NATO oil tankers torched in Dasht

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At least 19 oil tankers were destroyed in unidentified miscreants firing in Dasht on Monday.

22 August,2011 04:15 pm

Police said that miscreants attacked the tankers carrying oil for NATO troops stationed in Afghanistan near Dasht area of Mastang district of Baluchistan.The tankers caught fire as a result of gunshots. Police cordon off the entire area and started search for the miscreants.Crrently about 70 percent of the NATO supplies are shipped into Afghanistan through two border ports in Pakistan, namely the Chaman port in Balochistan and the Torkham port in Khyber Agency in northwest Pakistan.Attacks on NATO containers are common in Northwest and Southwest Pakistan where militants have destroyed hundreds oil tankers and other equipment to be supplied to US-led NATO troops engaged in war against Taliban in neighbouring war-turn Afghanistan.