Another attack on NATO fuel convoy

Gunmen torched more than two dozen tankers today carrying fuel to NATO troops and killed a driver. It was the sixth attack on convoys taking supplies to Afghanistan since Pakistan closed a key border crossing almost a week ago. Islamabad shut down the Torkham crossing along the Khyber Pass last Thursday after a NATO helicopter attack in the border area killed three Pakistani troops.

The closure has left hundreds of trucks stranded alongside the country's highways and bottlenecked traffic heading to the one route into Afghanistan from the south that has remained
open.

The attack early this morning came on trucks on their way to the Chaman crossing. An unidentified number of gunmen in two vehicles attacked the trucks as they sat in the parking lot of a roadside hotel on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province.