A suicide bomber hit a NATO convoy in October in southern Afghanistan. Recent attacks aimed at civilians. Allauddin Khan/Associated Press (Photo from The New York Times)From Times Online:
An armed gang carried out the first attack on a secondary southern supply route for foreign troops in Afghanistan, as thousands of lorry drivers continue to boycott the main route through the Khyber Pass.
Police revealed yesterday that at least three gunmen attacked a fuel tanker bound for Afghanistan on Tuesday just east of the Pakistani city of Quetta, shooting and wounding the driver and spilling 60,000 litres of fuel.
Militants also fired two rocket-propelled grenades yesterday at a convoy of more than 150 lorries as it set off on the northern route from the northwestern city of Peshawar towards the Khyber Pass, local officials said.
They were the latest in a series of bold attacks on the supply route through Pakistan in the last month that have accelerated efforts by Nato to open a “northern corridor” through Russia and Central Asia.
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My Comment: The need for a northern route is becoming more and more important. These attacks also reveal the inability or unwillingness of the Pakistani Government to stop these attacks.
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