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Militants attack NATO truck in Pakistan

Pakistani militants have attacked a NATO supply truck carrying commodities for the US-led forces stationed in Afghanistan and killed its driver.

Officials told Press TV that late on Sunday, unknown armed militants opened fire on the vehicle in Mastung, a town in the southwestern province of Balochistan.

The NATO truck was damaged in the attack, they further explained.

The truck was on its way from Karachi city to Kandahar in Afghanistan and was carrying goods for the NATO forces stationed in the war-torn country. The attackers escaped from the area just after the attack.

Pakistani security forces have reached the site of the attack and begun a search operation.

No group has claimed responsibility for the assault yet, but local officials blame the attack on pro-Taliban militants.

The supply line has become increasingly vulnerable to militant attacks in recent months.

Militants have destroyed hundreds of NATO vehicles in different parts of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces in the past two years.

The militants say the assaults are in retaliation for non-UN-sanctioned US drone strikes on Pakistan’s tribal belt.

Eighty percent of NATO supplies are transported to war-ravaged Afghanistan through Pakistan.

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