NATO oil tankers set ablaze in Pakistan

Four oil tankers carrying fuel supplies to NATO and US forces in Afghanistan have been torched in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province.

Three NATO oil tankers and four containers were burnt on Thursday at Pakistani border town of Torkham, Afghan Islamic Press reported.

Another oil tanker was reduced to a twisted mass of metal by a powerful blast in Nadir Khan Killay.

The tankers were on their way to the Afghan border from the southern port of Karachi. No human loss was reported in the incidents.

The bulk of supplies and equipment required by NATO and US-led forces battling the Taliban in landlocked Afghanistan passes through the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in northwest Pakistan.

Hundreds of trucks and containers have been torched or plundered over the last years in the restless tribal district along the Afghan border.

The rampant attacks have forced NATO to look for alternative routes, including through Central Asia.