Pakistan aims to recapture trucks stolen in Khyber

[Coventina]

Source: Reuters

LANDIKOTAL, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces aim to recapture trucks hijacked by militants as they were taking supplies to Western forces in Afghanistan through the Khyber Pass, a government official said on Tuesday.

Most supplies, including fuel, for U.S. and other Western forces battling a Taliban insurgency in landlocked Afghanistan are trucked through neighbouring Pakistan, which is also facing growing militant violence including a wave of bomb attacks.

In the latest attack, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a stadium in the northwestern city of Peshawar shortly after the closing ceremony of an inter-provincial games, wounding five people, police said.

Pakistani Taliban militants hijacked 13 trucks without firing a shot as they passed through the Khyber Pass on Monday. The gunmen later posed for photographs in front of two Humvee military vehicles and some of the trucks.



Read more: http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-36439820081111

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Great! Now our supply lines are being cut....

You've done a heck of a job, Bushie!

[Ian David]

1. BREAKING: Taliban reads Reuters, unloads trucks. n/t