A small blast partially damage a NATO container truck Tuesday morning near Pakistan-Afghanistan border in the northwest where hundreds of supply trucks are parked awaiting entry into Afghanistan as the blockage imposed by Pakistani government entered the sixth day, Xinhua reported.
The small intensity bomb was planted underneath a truck partially damaging it but no injuries to casualties were reported. Thousands of oil tankers and container trucks are lined up at different places across Pakistan, exposed to insurgent Taliban militants who had destroyed over 40 NATO supply trucks in two different incidents in less than a week.
Claiming the responsibility after both subversive acts, a Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) told media that was in reaction to NATO violation of Pakistani territory a week ago.
Taliban vowed to carry out more attacks on NATO supply line into Afghanistan, if Pakistani government continues to allow over 70 percent of "all kinds" of NATO supplies and 40 percent of fuel needs for 140,000 United States-led multinational troops fighting Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan.
Over two dozens of NATO trucks turned into ashes in Shaikarpur in southern Sindh province while two days later more than a dozen of trucks were destroyed early Monday morning in a terrorist attack at temporary parking in the garrison city Rawalpindi, adjacent to the capital city Islamabad.
NATO offered an apology for killing of Pakistani troops in an airspace violation by its gunship helicopters. A meeting on Monday between NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Brussels could not break the stalemate, as Pakistan is still keeping borders closed for NATO supplies on the sixth day on Tuesday.
NATO supply trucks that are operated under local contractors take supplies for NATO troops through two points bordering Afghanistan. One is at Chaman in southwest Balochistan province and the others is Torkham in the insurgency-plagued northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
It was reported that the reason of blockade by Pakistan is protest for killing Pakistani troops and airspace violation and bad security situation.