Nato supplies face Pakistan hurdle
BayBak, Azerbaijan | 1616 days ago | Thursday, 18th December , 2008 , 13:01 [pm] | Azerbaijan
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. | “The militants cannot differentiate between Nato and local supplies when they see a container on the back of a truck they open fire and may even kill you,” one driver told Al Jazeera.
Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, the head of Nato’s military committee, said on Tuesday that the military alliance was looking to diversify its supply routes. |
Nato and US forces in Afghanistan face further disruption to their supplies as activists in Pakistan say they will not allow any convoys to cross the border.
Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan’s oldest religious party, planned to hold a protest on Thursday against the use of terminals around the northwest city of Peshawar to supply foreign forces in the neighbouring country.
Al Jazeera’s Kamal Hyder, reporting from Peshawar, said that tens of thousands of people had gathered for the demonstration.
“They are going to have a huge protest rally, their supporters are coming from all corners of the province, and they are saying the government should stop access to Nato forces,” he said.
Hundreds of lorries and containers have been destroyed in a number of attacks around the city in recent weeks.
In the latest attack on Wednesday, a woman was killed and her two children wounded when three missiles were fired at a Nato supply convoy.
“Militants fired three missiles on Afghanistan-bound trucks carrying supplies for Nato forces. Two landed in open space and one hit a house, killing a woman and injuring two children,” Bakhtiar Mohmand, a local government official, said.
About 75 per cent of the vehicles, parts, weapons, fuel, water and food needed to sustain more than 60,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan moves through the pass and a second overland route to the south between Quetta and Kandahar.
On Tuesday, armed men attacked a fuel tanker on the southern route
Hauliers’ threat
Earlier in the week, hauliers in Pakistan said they had stopped transporting the supplies due to the attacks.
Nato forces say the deliveries have continued with about 170 lorries crossing the border on Tuesday, but local drivers are concerned about the increase in violence.
“The militants cannot differentiate between Nato and local supplies when they see a container on the back of a truck they open fire and may even kill you,” one driver told Al Jazeera.
Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, the head of Nato’s military committee, said on Tuesday that the military alliance was looking to diversify its supply routes.
He said that progress was being made on agreement to allow non-lethal equipment to be brought in with Russian help.
“We are looking to open multiple routes of communication,” he said, noting that talks with Turkmenistan were also advancing.
“The more lines, the better.”aljazeera
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