Friday, January 16, 2009

The U.S. Army in Afghanistan was left without supplies.

Fearing for their safety, Pakistani transport stopped delivering goods to Afghanistan for the U.S. Army and its allies through Haybersky passage. It is the main supply route International Force in Afghanistan, which delivered about 70 percent of cargo for the coalition forces, reports AFP.
The decision taken at the high activity of militias, recently carried out several attacks on warehouses, parking and transportation convoys in the border areas of Pakistan. As the head of carrying out the transport Hayberskoy Transport Association Mohammad Shakir Afridi, drivers do not feel safe and are forced to risk their lives. According to him, just in the past week in attacks by Taliban combatants were burned about 300 cars.
The attacks occurred as the station Peshawar - Haybersky passage in Pakistan, and in the border areas of Afghanistan, where over the past few years we lost 70 people and 400 cars, "- said Afridi.
Representatives of the Taliban stated that the action against the Transport Workers in response to rocket attacks on U.S. aviation Pakistani territory.
Goods for coalition troops in Afghanistan are delivered by sea in the Pakistani port of Karachi, where overloaded vehicles and arrive at the warehouses in the vicinity of Peshawar. Further convoys of trucks are forced to move to the Afghan border on Hayberskomu passage through the area of high activity of the Taliban.
According to the agency, currently NATO command is negotiating with Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan to organize an alternative supply routes through northern Afghanistan.

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