Suspected Taliban militants on Monday attacked the Al-Faisal truck terminal in northwest Pakistan and destroyed some 14 trucks carrying supplies for the NATO forces stationed in neighboring Afghanistan, said officials.
Local authorities said that the attack also damaged two other trucks and added that it took place when the NATO trucks were parked at the Al-Faisal truck terminal while on their way to Afghanistan.
The Al-Faisal truck terminal is located in the outskirts of Peshawar city, and it lies along the route taken by the NATO convoys to transport supplies to the alliance's troops deployed in Afghanistan to combat the Taliban insurgency there.
The attack on the Al-Faisal truck terminal on Monday comes just a day after a previous militant attack on a nearby terminal destroyed eight trucks and damaged a dozen others.
The recent escalation in Taliban attacks on convoys carrying supplies to the NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan via Pakistan's volatile North-West Frontier Province has forced the alliance to look for other safer routes.
The U.S. has already reached agreements with various Central Asian countries and Russia for opening new supply routes through their territories for the U.S. and NATO forces stationed in Afghanistan.
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