NATO supply container blown up in NW Pakistan

A container carrying supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan has been destroyed in a powerful explosion that ripped through a convoy of trucks in northwest Pakistan.

Initial investigations indicated that a bomb was planted in one of the containers carrying supplies for the US-led NATO forces before it exploded in the Torkham pass in Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan, a Press TV correspondent reported quoting a Pakistani police officer probing the incident.

"The container was completely destroyed by the explosion, but the driver and other vehicles remained safe," the officer said.

Convoys carrying food supplies for US and NATO forces in Afghanistan face frequent threats by Taliban militants.

NATO and the US forces are greatly dependent on Pakistan for supplies as about 80 percent of such cargo pass through the country.

The bulk of the equipment required by foreign troops is shipped through the troubled Khyber tribal region in northwest Pakistan and southwestern Balochistan province.

US officials say northwest Pakistan has become a safe haven for al-Qaeda and Taliban militants who fled the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan and have regrouped to launch attacks on foreign troops across the border.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=118258§ionid=351020401.