Pakistan rebels burned 14 trucks from NATO

Gunmen burned .- Saturday, 14 trucks with fuel for U.S. forces and NATO in Afghanistan to attack a parking lot on a road in southwestern Pakistan, officials said. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which also wounded a truck driver. Islamist insurgents and common criminals in Pakistan often attack the caravans of supplies for foreign forces.

These are materials from the southern port of Karachi to Afghanistan. The attack happened outside a restaurant road in the area of Dera Murad Jamali in Baluchistan province, said local official Muhammad Fatteh. The truck apparently went to the Chaman border crossing, the smaller of the two steps to Afghanistan.

Last year, 136 NATO trucks were destroyed in that province in 56 such attacks, said provincial secretary of the Interior, Akbar Hussain Durani. Killing 34 people and injuring 23, said. It was not immediately possible in the respective data obtained from the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, where it is believed that the attacks are more common.

The Khyber tribal region of neighboring houses the largest border crossings. Pakistani Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack Azam Tariq group. The Police have refused to venture who was behind the operation, which involved eight gunmen. ''We have instructed our fighters attacking supply trucks NATO anywhere in Pakistan,''said Tariq by telephone to The Associated Press.

''We want to make very, very difficult to NATO all land routes into Pakistan.'' The Pakistani Taliban is connected to the Afghan, although different groups. While both oppose the U.S. presence in the region, Pakistani insurgents also attack the government of his country.

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