As many as 171 vehicles of the U.S.-led NATO forces, including 62 armored personnel carriers (APCs) were allegedly torched by armed attackers suspected to be Taliban militants in the vicinity of Pishtakara in Peshawar, Pakistan, early Sunday morning.
More than 130 vehicles were completely destroyed and 40 others were partially damaged. In the biggest ever attack on NATO logistics in Pakistan, a watchman was killed and two others grievously injured when they offered resistance to the attackers who were armed. They were allegedly carrying rocket launchers, hand grenades, petrol bombs, and AK-47 rifles.
The pre-dawn raid took place at a logistics terminal in the northwestern Pakistani city where dozens of trucks carrying Humvees and other military vehicles were parked. The U.S. military, however, said that the losses in the latest raid would have only a minimal impact on its operations against the Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan.
The attack described as the most serious among the recent ones, came as the Taliban chief Mullah Mohammed Omar urged Western forces to leave Afghanistan. The Pakistani Taliban have allegedly begun to choke the supply route through Pakistan that transports more than 70% of the western soldiers' supplies of food, equipment, fuel, and other vital provisions. Supplies are trucked hundreds of miles from the port at Karachi across Pakistan to Peshawar and then to Afghanistan via the Khyber Pass.
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