Pakistan Taliban claims fourth Nato truck attack

The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack on Wednesday in which one person died. At least 10 Nato oil tankers were set on fire, the fourth such attack in six days. Gunmen attacked the terminal where some 40 tankers were parked in the south-western city of Quetta.

Reuters

Nearly 60 trucks have been torched and three people killed in three other raids this
week. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for all the attacks and says they are in revenge for US drone attacks.

"We will further intensify attacks with the intensification of US drone strikes on us," Tahreek-e-Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq told AFP.

Two Nato supply trucks were torched in Qalat district on Monday, while on Friday, gunmen set fire to trucks and tankers in the south.

Meanwhile, Pakistan's ambassador to the US Hussein Haqqani has linked the increase in US drone strikes to efforts to foil a suspected terror plot against European cities. Drones have killed 140 people in 24 attacks since 3 September, according to Pakistani authorities.

Pakistan has kept the Nato land supply route to Afghanistan closed for the seventh day in a row, after a Nato cross-border helicopter strike killed three Pakistani soldiers. Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen is urging Pakistan to open the route.