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Monday, October 11, 2010
NATO supplies resume as drones kill eight in North Waziristan* Dozens of oil tankers, trucks allowed to cross into Afghanistan through Torkham border
* Taliban claim Saturday’s attack on NATO supply convoy in Sibi
LANDIKOTAL/PESHAWAR: NATO supply trucks and oil tankers started crossing the Torkham border once again on Sunday after an 11-day deadlock imposed following a US helicopter strike that killed three Pakistani soldiers.
Dozens of NATO oil tankers and trucks were allowed to cross into Afghanistan. The first convoy through the Torkham border crossing, comprising more than a dozen vehicles, “left for Afghanistan this afternoon”, Customs official Muhamad Nawaz told AFP. More vehicles loaded with supplies for NATO and US troops were ready to leave, he added.
Also on Sunday, suspected US drones launched a pair of missiles in North Waziristan, killing at least eight people. The identities of the people killed were not known, but the area where the strikes occurred is dominated by a terrorist group led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur, which regularly attacks NATO troops in Afghanistan, said Pakistani intelligence officials. In the first attack, a drone fired two missiles at a pair of cars in an Afghan refugee camp in North Waziristan, killing six people as the vehicles and a house nearby were destroyed, said the officials. The camp is located in the Spin Wam area near Mir Ali, they said. Minutes later, a drone killed two people near the bank of a river located just outside the refugee camp, the officials said.
Claim: Meanwhile, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the latest attack on a NATO supply convoy in Sibi district near Quetta, and vowed they would continue until US drone strikes were stopped.
“We accept responsibility for the attacks on the NATO supply trucks and tankers in Sibi district on Saturday,” TTP spokesman Azam Tariq said. “We will continue such attacks until the drone strikes are stopped,” he said in a telephone call from an undisclosed location. staff report/agencies
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk