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Pakistani driver transporting fuel for Nato forces killed
Posted on: Thu May 13, 2010
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LANDIKOTAL: Afghan Taliban shot dead a Pakistani national transporting fuel for Nato forces in Afghanistan in Sarobi area about 125 kilometres from the Pak-Afghan Torkham border, family sources said Wednesday.
The sources said that Izzatullah of Charbagh was driving his oil tanker to the US airbase in Bagram north of Kabul when Taliban fighters fired at the vehicle in Wrekhmin Tangi gorge near Sarobi. Izzatullah died on the spot while the oil tanker caught fire and was reduced to ashes.
Afghan authorities handed over the body of Izzatullah to Pakistani officials at Torkham border. Meanwhile, suspected Taliban militants targetted the Nato supply route with a time device Wednesday.
The powerful bomb, planted on a roadside on the Pak-Afghan Highway in Khyber-Zakhakhel area, went off at 1:45 p.m. No casualties were reported, as there was no vehicle or passenger in the vicinity at the time of the blast. After the incident security forces rushed to the site and cordoned off the area to gather evidence. The road remained blocked during the clearance action by security forces.
Courtesy : The News