Terrorists hijack trucks supplying NATO forces in Afghanistan

The timing is no coincidence. Pakistan trying to hurt NATO forces because of all the air-strikes targeting terrorists inside Pakistan. Last week during General Petraeus' visit to Pakistan he got an earful from the Pakistani government about NATO airstrikes inside Pakistan. Government officials claim that US air-strikes inside Pakistan are counter-productive to the War on Terror.

The Pakistani army "is a silent spectator. [Terrorists] attack [supply] trucks, loot them and kill our drivers in broad daylight, even near security checkposts".

This is the only way that Pakistan can hurt NATO forces in Afghanistan by cutting off their supplies. This isn't the first time either. Right after the US commando raid inside Pakistan's tribal area, NATOs fuel shipments were suspended by Pakistani officials.

Pakistan is using the terrorists to disrupt NATO's supply in order to insulate themselves from blame. Yahoo News

LANDIKOTAL, Pakistan (Reuters) – Militants in northwest Pakistan hijacked 13 trucks carrying supplies for Western forces in Afghanistan on Monday as they passed through the Khyber Pass, a government official said.

Most supplies, including fuel, for U.S. and other Western forces battling a Taliban insurgency in landlocked Afghanistan are trucked through neighboring Pakistan, which is also facing growing militant violence.[...]

The trucks were seized at four places along a 35 km (20 mile) stretch of the road, said a senior government administrator in the Khyber region.

"About 60 masked gunmen popped up on the road and took away the trucks with their drivers. Not a single shot was fired anywhere," the official, Bakhtiar Mohmand, told Reuters.

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In Landikotal, the main town before the pass, traders and transport company operators complained that the government wasn't taking security on the road seriously.

"The government is a silent spectator. They attack our trucks, loot them and kill our drivers in broad daylight, even near security checkposts, but they can't do anything," said Eshtiar Mohmand, who owns a trucking company.