Islamabad, Nov. 20: Suspected Taliban militants in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday torched 10 lorries carrying oil supplies for Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) troops in Afghanistan, police said.
The attack took place in the Ring Road area of Peshawar, the capital of militancy-plagued Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
An unknown number of gunmen stormed a workshop where more than a dozen tankers were parked. After overpowering the security guards they set fire to the vehicles.
Ten were completely destroyed, Mr Ijaz Khan, a senior police official said.
It was the latest attack in the Taliban’s intensified campaign of strikes against North Atlantic Treaty Organisation supply lines.
More than 170 supply vehicles have been torched since early October and six people, most of them drivers, have been killed.
According to official figures, 80 per cent of Nato supplies are transported to land-locked Afghanistan via Pakistan.