Oil supply to Nato resumes after five months
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Islamabad, Sept 5, IRNA -- Oil supply to Nato forces in Afghanistan has resumed after a five-month suspension because of attacks on tankers in Pakistan, a media report said on Thursday.
Daily ‘Dawn’ reported that four oil tankers have crossed the border into Afghanistan amid tight security.
Officials at Torkham border said additional personnel of Khasadar and Levies forces had been deployed along the road when the four oil tankers entered Khyber Agency from Peshawar near the Takhta Beg checkpost.
The movement of the tankers was kept in low profile to avoid militant attacks.
“It took the four tankers almost six hours to cover a 40km distance from Jamrud to the Torkham border due to bad road condition,” the driver of a tanker said.
It was the first delivery via the Torkham border since March. Transporters had suspended the supply first because of a row over freight charges with contractors and later due to threats from militant groups.
A number of oil tankers and their owners were targeted by militant groups operating in Jamrud and Landi Kotal after the government announced the resumption of all kinds of supplies which had been suspended in November 2011 after Nato fighter planes bombed a security post in Salala, Mohmand Agency, in which 25 Pakistani soldiers lost their lives.
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