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Nato supplies to remain suspended until security plan in place
PESHAWAR: Nato supplies could not yet be restored, following an attack on a convoy of trucks, killing a cleaner of the truck and wounding the driver in the town of Jamrud, in the outskirts here that forced the authorities to temporarily stop Nato trucks into Afghanistan through Torkham, Khyber Agency.Government sources said that the Nato supplies would remain suspended until a better security plan was put in place. On the other hand, government sources also said that the Khayber Pukhtunkhaw and the federal governments were supposed to finalize a joint security plan, but no such meeting was called for thus far. Sources further said that the provincial government has made it clear to the federal government that if any damage was done to Nato supplies in the absence of a consensus strategy relating to the security plan, the provincial government would not be responsible for it.
The provincial government has urged for earliest convening of a meeting over Nato container’s security and taking all the stakeholders into confidence.
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