The Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for two attacks on NATO supply convoys in Pakistan and threatened to carry out more.
‘We accept responsibility for the attacks on the NATO supply trucks and tankers,’ Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesman Azam Tariq said.
‘I am talking about attacks both in Sindh and in Islamabad,’ he said in a telephone call from an undisclosed location.
‘We will carry out more such attacks in future. We will not allow the use of Pakistani soil as a supply route for NATO troops based in Afghanistan.'
‘This is also to avenge drone attacks,’ he added.
At least three people were killed when about 20 oil tankers loaded with fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan were attacked and set ablaze near the Pakistani capital overnight.
The attack came as Pakistani authorities continued their own blockade of a main land route for NATO supplies for a fifth consecutive day, in response to a NATO helicopter strike that Islamabad says killed three of its soldiers.
NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen has urged Pakistan to re-open a key Afghanistan supply route 'as soon as possible' and expressed regret for the deaths of Pakistani troops in a NATO strike.
