Tag: Nato

QUETTA - NATO fighter planes reportedly violated Pakistan's airspace on Tuesday for almost 20 minutes over Chaman. According to sources, two NATO jet planes and an unmanned aircraft were seen flying over Chaman and its adjacent areas. The planes remained in the Pakistani airspace for almost 20 minutes and then returned to Afghanistan. The aircraft movement panicked locals, who feared that NATO was about to launch airstrikes in the area.

PESHAWAR - As many as four NATO oil tankers and nine other vehicles were destroyed when an explosive device planted in an oil tanker exploded at Pak-Afghan Highway in the outskirts of Peshawar on Tuesday, officials and locals said.
The oil tankers, carrying fuel for the allied forces stationed in Afghanistan, were parked at Karkhano Market, about 10km outside the city. After the explosion, other oil tankers and vehicles also caught fire. Two people were injured in the incident;

QUETTA - Gunmen in the Balochistan's town Mithri attacked five oil tankers carrying supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan, officials said Monday.
"Unknown gunmen fired at five NATO oil tankers. Two of them caught fire while oil leaked from three others," district administration chief Muhammad Azam said.
"There were no injuries to drivers," he said. Local intelligence officials confirmed the attack. NATO trucks and oil tankers are regularly the targets of arson attacks

QUETTA - Two NATO supplies containers were set on fire in Khuzdar district on Sunday. According to police three containers were returning Karachi after unloading NATO supplies in Kandahar when some armed attackers opened indiscriminate fire at Wadh area of Khuzdar district, some 360 KM south of Quetta on RCD Highway.
The driver of the first container attempted to speed away but the vehicle turned turtle. However the rest of two containers were halted. The attackers disembarked

BRUSSELS - NATO-led forces have regained the momentum against Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan but still face a tough fight this year, the head of the alliance's military committee said Thursday. Italian Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola told a news conference he was confident the international military mission would complete its objective of handing over security responsibility to Afghan forces nationwide by 2014.
"The tide has been reversed, that is in my humble assessment," he said

QUETTA - Gunmen on Friday attacked vehicles carrying NATO supplies to Afghanistan, torching three of them and wounding two people in three incidents in Qalat, around 160 kilometres south of Quetta.
"Three men riding a motorcycle intercepted the three tankers, threw petrol and set them on fire," local police official Lal Jan told the media. In the second incident, two men torched another NATO oil tanker in Mastung district, 40 kilometres south of Quetta, Jan added. No loss of life

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly's Standing Committee on SAFRON was told on Thursday that the Pakistan Army was "illegally" receiving a sum of Rs 35,000 per container from NATO to clear containers at the Torkham border. Expressing anger, the committee has summoned the FC IG in this connection. The NA body's meeting was chaired by Sajid Hussain. FATA Additional Secretary Habib Ullah told the committee that the regular transportation of NATO containers was badly damaging the road

PESHAWAR - Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has completed the investigation into more than 3,000 Nato oil tankers, missing from Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa and tribal areas while it has been recommended in the investigation report to take strict action against the 300 personnel of FBR and Levies Force.
According to details, after starting investigation into the case of 300 missing Nato oil tankers, FBR recorded statements of the security guards deployed at Torkham border, Levies Force

PESHAWAR - An oil tanker carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan has been gutted after a bomb planted in the vehicle exploded in Khyber Agency, officials said.
The blast took place late on Monday at a terminal near the Torkham border crossing in Khyber Agency, local administration official Iqbal Khattak told AFP.
"Around 25 tankers were parked at the terminal. Militants planted a bomb in one of the tankers which exploded triggering a fire," he said. It was not

KABUL - Iran's ban on fuel tankers crossing into Afghanistan over claims they are supplying NATO troops is snaring ordinary Afghans in a complex power game as winter living costs rise, experts say.
Some 2,000 trucks are stranded on the Iranian-Afghan border, Afghanistan's commerce ministry says, in a standoff which has run since early December, heaping more misery on civilians in the war-torn, impoverished country.
Behind it all is Iran's desire to strike out at the

QUETTA - At least 16 oil tankers carrying supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan were badly damaged when unidentified armed assailants opened fire on them in Naseerabad district on Saturday. Per details the attackers arrived at Jamali Petrol Pump situated in the outskirts of Dera Murad Jamali, around 2:30am and opened fire, spraying bullets at 18 tankers parked at the station. One of the cleaners was injured in the incident. Petrol leaking from the tankers also caught fire and spread

KARACHI - Declaring the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) supply route from Karachi to Kabul for the allied forces in Afghanistan unsafe, the federal government has asked the home departments of Sindh and Balochistan to adopt a foolproof security plan for the itinerary, sources in the Sindh Home Department told Pakistan Today.
They said that the NATO supply route is under attack by unidentified suspects, whereas goods transporters are being uncooperative with the

KABUL - Three NATO soldiers were killed in a Taliban-type bomb blast in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the alliance's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said. No further details, including the exact location of the incident or the nationalities of the victims, were disclosed but most NATO soldiers in eastern Afghanistan are US nationals.
"Three International Security Assistance Force service members died following an improvised explosive device attack in eastern

KHUZDAR - Unknown men torched an oil tanker, carrying fuel for North Atlantic Treaty Organistion forces, in Khuzdar on Sunday.
According to police, Kandahar-bound oil tanker was coming from Karachi and was passing from Khuzdar district of Balochistan when unidentified armed men intercepted it and dragged its driver and cleaner out, set the tanker on fire.
The police have recorded the driver and cleaner's statement and registered a case against unidentified attackers.

PESHAWAR - Suspected militants on Wednesday attacked two Afghanistan-bound NATO containers killing a driver. Two cleaners were also injured in the ambush near Landi Kotal, official and local sources said. The NATO containers were stopped near Landi Kotal by armed men.
"As the vehicles stopped, they opened fire on the driver and his two helpers. The driver died on the spot while the two cleaners sustained bulled wounds", a local transporter told this scribe on telephone from Landi

QUETTA - Unidentified armed men set a NATO container on fire here on Monday while Frontier Corps Balochistan on Monday defused a landmine in another incident. In a raid here the local police also siezed 1000 kilograms of hashish.
During routine patrol Frontier Corps personnel spotted a landmine in Muchh area, some 70 KM southeast of Quetta. They called in mine-sweepers and defused the mine. Separately, a container carrying NATO supplies was coming from Karachi, when armed

KABUL - The NATO-led force in Afghanistan disputed on Monday an Afghan government accusation that foreign troops had violated a security deal by conducting a night raid in Kabul in which two guards were killed.
Under the 2008 deal, Afghan authorities have to approve and lead all security operations in the capital. But the Ministry of Interior (MOI) has said that foreign forces ignored the security rules and it was unaware of Friday's operation.
Raids by foreign forces,