Pakistan War News Updates -- February 3, 2009

A bridge along a supply route used by NATO forces in the Khyber Pass region was destroyed by Taliban militants on Tuesday. Mohammad Sajjad/Associated Press

Militants In Pakistan Sever Afghan Supply Link
-- Yahoo News/Reuters

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Suspected militants blew up a bridge in northwestern Pakistan's Khyber Pass on Tuesday, cutting the main route for supplies bound for Western forces in Afghanistan, Pakistani government officials said.

Separately, a military spokesman said security forces killed at least 35 Taliban insurgents and wounded many more in an attack on Monday night in the Swat Valley, northeast of the Kyber Pass.

Militants in northwestern Pakistan stepped up attacks on the road through the Khyber Pass, a crucial route into land-locked Afghanistan, last year in an attempt to deprive international forces fighting the Taliban of supplies trucked in from Pakistan.

The 30-meter (100-foot) iron bridge, 23 km (15 miles) west of the city of Peshawar, was blown up after midnight and officials said all traffic along the route was suspended.

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