Looks like we signed the new supply route deal with Russia, Uzbekistan and just in time. Daily TimesLANDIKOTAL: Supplies to western forces in Afghanistan through the Khyber Pass were briefly suspended on Monday after the Taliban attacked an army camp in Landikotal, killing a soldier and injuring 10 others, an official told Reuters.
A government official in Khyber had said early on Monday that supplies through the pass had been suspended indefinitely after the Taliban attacked a military camp with rocket-propelled grenades.
But he later said the route had been reopened after security forces captured 10 men suspected of carrying out the attack.
Showing posts with label khyber pass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label khyber pass. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
NATO route briefly closed as Taliban attack army camp
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Pakistan shuts down NATO supply route
Has there ever been a war where one side's supply route ran through enemy territory? CNNISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistani security forces launched an operation against Taliban militants in the nation's tribal region along the border with Afghanistan on Tuesday, shutting down NATO supply routes, Pakistani military sources said.
Eight people -- two suspected Taliban militants and six civilians -- died in the operation in the Khyber Agency that involved military helicopter gunships, according to Pakistani intelligence sources. The fighting was taking place near the town of Jamrud.
The Khyber Pass, a key transit link for NATO and U.S. military supplies from Pakistan to Afghanistan, has been closed as a result of the operation, said Tariq Hayat, Khyber's political agent. He said he didn't know when it would reopen.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Taliban attack NATO supply trucks in Peshawar
The taliban attack another NATO convoy inside Pakistan near Peshawar. This is the 6th such attack since November. Although these attacks are insignificant when considering the whole logistic operations. However, it does show a shift in strategy for the taliban. Instead of battling NATO forces which would result in heavy taliban loses they are going after NATO's soft underbelly, convoys travelling through Pakistan.GEOPESHAWAR: Suspected militants lodged rocket attack on a truck depot at Bilal Terminal in Peshawar near the border with the Khyber Agency in the country's restive tribal areas, destroying NATO supply trucks bound for Afghanistan, Peshawar police said.
The latest attack took place Saturday at 03:00 a.m., police said. Multiple explosions rocked the Bilal Terminal near Ring Road in Peshawar. Sources said that militants also threw petrol bomb on the truck depot.
Police said three or four blasts sparked a fire. Fire has engulfed the terminal meanwhile; fire tenders have been dispatched on the scene of fire. It was the sixth attack on NATO supply lines through Pakistan since November.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Taleban extract heavy tribute to let vital Nato supplies pass
The whole situation inside Pakistani is just f**ked up. We need our supplies to go through Pakistan in order to reach our soldiers in Afghanistan who are fighting the taliban. But Pakistan pays off the taliban so as to let the supplies through. Not to mention the support the taliban receives from the ISI. Mess up. Times OnlineToday the 30-mile mountain passage is once again at the centre of an historic conflict - this time between Nato and Islamist militants - that will decide the future of this region. In the past few months, militants have started hijacking the convoys that bring in 70 per cent of supplies for Nato and US forces in Afghanistan, and most of the food aid. Fifteen miles away, in Peshawar, they set fire to 260 lorries on two nights this week.
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Pakistani authorities shut the pass for a week recently and began providing armed escorts for some of the 200 to 300 lorries that cross the Afghan border every day, but they cannot guard all the convoys, embroiled as they are in their biggest offensive against al-Qaeda and Taleban militants in neighbouring tribal regions. In addition, Pakistan is poised to withdraw its forces from the Afghan border if India responds militarily to last month's Mumbai attack.The pass lies just inside Khyber Agency, one of Pakistan's seven Federally Administered Tribal Areas which have been quasi-autonomous since Pakistan's independence in 1947. The area has traditionally been controlled by the Afridis, a tribe of about 600,000 people.
The Government rewards them for allowing traffic to pass freely by hiring their tribesmen as khasadars, or tribal police. This year, however, the system has been disrupted by disputes between sub-tribes and other groups vying for control of the three main sections of the road - Bara, Landikotal and Jamrud.
The trouble began when Mangal Bagh, a Sepah Afridi who leads a fundamentalist Islamic movement in Bara, sent his men into Landikotal and Jamrud. A former lorry driver, he said he wanted to stop smugglers bringing in liquor and other illegal goods.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Taliban raids Nato convoys for second night
The taliban attacked a NATO supply base, not even a mile away from the distribution terminal that was attack yesterday, burning an additional 50 vehicles. The taliban terrorist scum were able to "overpower" the security guards and disarm them.
Some security Pakistan gives us, it's only for show. In the previous attack which saw 160 NATO vehicles torched, only a couple of lightly armed guards were protecting the warehouse. In another attack which the taliban captured a couple of Humvees, the Pakistani military was a silent spectator.
Pakistan is our weakest point in the war against islamic terrorists.TelegraphThe attack came barely 24 hours after 200 militants destroyed more than 100 lorries in a Nato base barely a mile away. The trucks are needed to ferry vital equipment and supplies through the perilous Khyber Pass - the narrow mountain trail leading from Pakistan into Afghanistan.
"The militants came just past midnight, firing in the air, sprinkled petrol on containers and then set them on fire," said Mohammad Zaman, a security guard at the site quoted by Reuters.
"They told us they would not harm us, but they asked us not to work for the Americans."[...]
A senior police officer said the attack took place at 2.30am. "They fired rockets, hurled hand grenades and then set ablaze over one hundred trucks," he said.
One guard was killed and a fire swept through the parked vehicles. "They were shouting Allah-o-Akbar (God is Great) and Down With America. They broke into the terminals after snatching guns from us," said Mohammad Rafiullah, a security guard the the terminal.
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