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Pakistan sends troops to guard NATO supply trucks
AP - Saturday, December 13
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Pakistan deployed paramilitary troops to a group of terminals used by vehicles supplying NATO and U.S. troops in Afghanistan after the latest in a string of attacks burned more than two dozen trucks, police said Friday.
Militants appear to be increasingly targeting the critical supply route, which goes through the famed Khyber Pass.
On Thursday night, suspected militants attacked one of the terminals in the northwest city of Peshawar with petrol bombs, burning 25 trucks, police official Kashif Alam said.
Alam said Frontier Corps troops were deployed Friday to "patrol the surroundings" of the terminal. He declined to say how many troops were involved in the operation.
In one of their most brazen attacks, pro-Taliban fighters on Sunday attacked a nearby terminal, torching about 170 trucks and trailers carrying supplies and equipment to the allied forces. The destroyed vehicles included about 70 Humvees.
Peshawar sits on the edge of a lawless tribal belt where the Pakistani army is battling Taliban and al-Qaida militants.
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